An inmate of the Lusignan Prison, on the East Coast of Demerara, was busted while trying to smuggle nearly two and a half pounds of cannabis into the facility on Thursday morning.
According to a Guyana Police Force press release, 25-year-old Shardrick King was found with the suspected narcotics at about 8.20 am at the prison.
The release said that the man, who is serving a sentence for wounding, works as an orderly in the penitentiary