By Chip Scarborough
WTOK
LAUDERDALE COUNTY, Miss. — Efforts are currently underway to further prevent contraband from entering a local prison.
30-foot netting will soon surround the East Mississippi Correctional facility in Lost Gap. Management and Training Corporation says it is just another step to ensure things like cigarettes, cell phones, and drugs don’t make their way into the prison. MTC says it fully supports the Mississippi Department of Corrections in this effort and so does Lauderdale County Sheriff Billy Sollie.
“We certainly applaud their efforts,” Sollie says. “This has been an ongoing issue out at the facility at Lost Gap where cell phones and other contraband are being thrown over the fence and are being picked up by those who have access to that area between the fence and the buildings.”
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