TORONTO -- Drug-addicted federal parolees are using fake penises and laboratory-cleansed urine to cheat random urinalysis tests, the Toronto Sun reported yesterday. While parole officials are always on the lookout for cheats, the first fake penis kit seizure was made in the Toronto area last week.
It is believed the convicts who bought the kit from their California-based suppliers may have loaned it to others.
The kits are worn around the waist and join a prosthetic penis to a pouch of battery-warmed reconstituted urine concentrate.
Correctional Service Canada reacted quickly when a parole official discovered someone using the kit and asked the service's lawyers to look at alternative policies and procedures.
"We will have to develop appropriate protocols to screen for this device," said Joe Beatty, Correctional Service Canada spokesman. "It's like having to develop a new mousetrap... there seems to be a very significant market for ( the kit )."
In recent years, the service has placed an emphasis on releasing convicts to halfway houses, placing strict conditions that they avoid alcohol and drugs.
Parolees who fail a urinalysis test have their parole revoked and are typically sent back to prison.
Employees at a west-end Toronto distributor of one of the kits, called the Urinator, would not comment on the seizure.
4/12/03
winnipegfreepress.com
Alan Cairns / Toronto Sun
It is believed the convicts who bought the kit from their California-based suppliers may have loaned it to others.
The kits are worn around the waist and join a prosthetic penis to a pouch of battery-warmed reconstituted urine concentrate.
Correctional Service Canada reacted quickly when a parole official discovered someone using the kit and asked the service's lawyers to look at alternative policies and procedures.
"We will have to develop appropriate protocols to screen for this device," said Joe Beatty, Correctional Service Canada spokesman. "It's like having to develop a new mousetrap... there seems to be a very significant market for ( the kit )."
In recent years, the service has placed an emphasis on releasing convicts to halfway houses, placing strict conditions that they avoid alcohol and drugs.
Parolees who fail a urinalysis test have their parole revoked and are typically sent back to prison.
Employees at a west-end Toronto distributor of one of the kits, called the Urinator, would not comment on the seizure.
4/12/03
winnipegfreepress.com
Alan Cairns / Toronto Sun
