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Department cites security concerns amid recovery of phones and weapons

The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) is moving to curtail the practice of relatives and friends delivering food items to inmates at correctional centres. Commissioner of Corrections (Ret) Brigadier Radgh Mason says the DCS is taking steps to ban the practice, which he expects to be halted in the near future.

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