There’s a new boss at Her Majesty’s Prison
at Northward to make sure that prisoners, visitors and staff members toe the
line.
Prison officials are specifically targeting
those who would take contraband into the facility.
The BOSS is a body scanning machine that
can detect the presence of metal such as handcuff keys, shanks, small tools,
razor blades, metal capsules used to smuggle drugs and cell phones.
The chair features a chin rest and oral
sensors on the back of the chair for scanning nasal cavities. Sitting in the
chair scans body cavities as well as the lower abdominal area and the lower leg
and foot area.
While there haven’t been a great deal of
weapons found at Northward, cell phones are causing a headache in the prison
system.
This new chair will make it harder for
prisoners to get cell phones and contact people outside the prison’s walls.
It has been well documented and known for
some time that people lob contraband over the prison walls to inmates.
The chair is also mobile, so it can be
moved to different areas when needed.
And while the thought of someone tucking a cell phone or
any other contraband into an orifice of their body sounds disgusting, the
reality is that it does happen.
Backing up the chair is new wording in the
Prisons Law bill, which makes smuggling items into the prison an offence.
The BOSS chair eliminates the need for
inmates to disrobe for body cavity searches, as it searches the body through
the clothing.
The chair uses no X-rays and poses no
health risks, even to pregnant women or people with pacemakers.
We applaud Prison Director Dwight Scott for
getting this new piece of equipment to help combat illegal activity at the
prison.
The $7,500 gift came to us from the Foreign
and Commonwealth Office. Hopefully it will help cut down on contraband at the
prison and on crime in general in the Cayman Islands as prisoners will not be
able to as easily make outside contact.
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