However, a person can get a lesser sentence for certain types of contraband. A second or subsequent offense of possession of contraband in a penal institution is punishable by a minimum of 20 years.
If an inmate is found to be in possession of any of these contraband items, he or she faces a sentence of 5 to 20 years. § 21) is a felony punishable by one to 5 years in prison. In general, a first offense of bringing weapons, drugs, alcohol, money, or financial documents belonging to someone other than the inmate or his or her spouse into a penal institution ( 57 O.S. Other cases of prison contraband delivery involve more basic methods-including simply throwing the items over a fence onto prison grounds.Īccording to a report by the Oklahoman, some 20,000 contraband cell phones were found in Oklahoma correctional facilities between 20-of that total, 7,705 were discovered last year, showing that the number of illegal smartphones in jails and prisons are skyrocketing. A former inmate was convicted in connection with the case. Last fall, a drone carrying cell phones, drugs, and hacksaw blades crashed into a security fence at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. Getting corrections employees to deliver contraband is certainly one way to bring banned items into a jail or prison, but it is by no means the only way. They say she " readily admitted" to bringing cell phones and controlled substances to jail inmates. Last month, we wrote about a McClain County Jail health care worker who was arrested and charged with bringing contraband into a penal institution after jail employees found a cell phone among the inmates and traced it back to the health care worker. Cigarettes and tobacco and cell phones and chargers are also in high demand, and there is no shortage of people willing to deliver these items-whether to repay a debt, to help an incarcerated friend or family member, or even just make some quick cash. Perhaps this is nowhere more true than in the American penal system.Ĭontraband is-and always has been-a part of prisons, and a part of prison economy, and while drugs and weapons are obviously among banned items, they are not the only contraband in demand in Oklahoma jails and prisons. People are always willing to pay a premium for the things they want that they cannot easily get, and there will always be those willing to take the risk of delivering those items in return for a lucrative payout. Germany extradited Kovalchuk to Russia in July 2018.Any time something is banned or outlawed, there will be a black market for that item. Officials said the alleged mastermind - later identified as Kovalchuk, a former technical worker at the Russian Embassy in Argentina who then resided in Germany - was wanted under an international arrest warrant. The cocaine was replaced with flour and the luggage was flown in 2017 to Russia, where two men were arrested when they came to pick it up, Bullrich said. In February 2018, Argentinian Security Minister Patricia Bullrich said 389 kilograms of cocaine were found in bags seized in December 2016, following a tip from the Russian ambassador and three officers with Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB). None of the defendants is or was a diplomat. Three days earlier, a jury convicted the alleged mastermind of the operation, Andrei Kovalchuk, along with Ali Abyanov, Vladimir Kalmykov, and Khudzhamov of buying and storing the drugs at the Russian Embassy's school in Buenos Aires with the intention of later selling the contraband in Europe.
Kozak added that the prosecution wants the three other defendants in the case to be handed prison terms of between 17 and 19 years. Lawyer Leonid Kozak, who is defending one of the defendants, Ishtimir Khudzhamov, told Current Time on December 16 that prosecutors asked the Dorogomilov district court to sentence his client to 15 years in prison. MOSCOW - Prosecutors have asked a court in Moscow to sentence to lengthy prison terms four defendants convicted in a drugs operation that found almost 400 kilograms of cocaine on the premises of the Russian Embassy in Argentina.
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