DRUMHELLER PRISON UNDER LOCKDOWN FOR DRUG SEARCH

DRUMHELLER - Drumheller Institution has been under lockdown this week
after staff received information an attempt had been made to smuggle a
large amount of narcotics into the facility.

Inmates at the minimum/medium security prison have been locked in
their cells since 6 p.m. Thursday to enable the search.

The search is expected to last a few more days.

Visits to the institution have been suspended while the search continues.

Drumheller Institution is a federal penitentiary located 140
kilometres northeast of Calgary.

Currently, 541 medium security and 71 minimum security inmates live at
the institution.

Correctional Services officials were unavailable for comment Friday.

Further details about the search, such as how authorities became
suspicious of drug activity, have not been released.