Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

44.   Offences

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    (1)   Every person who without lawful authority—

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      (a)     conveys, supplies, or causes to be conveyed or supplied, to any inmate, or hides or places for the inmate's use any prohibited article;

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      (b)     brings or attempts by any means whatever including throwing objects over the perimeter wall, to introduce into any correctional centre, or places or attempts to place where inmates are working, any prohibited articles;

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      (c)     brings or attempts to bring out of any correctional centre, or conveys from any correctional centre any prohibited article;

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      (d)     communicates with any inmate contrary to this Act or regulations;

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      (e)     aids or abets any inmate in escaping or attempting to escape from legal custody;

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      (f)     enters, or attempts to enter, any grounds buildings, yards, offices or other premises whatsoever appertaining to any correctional centre without due permission,

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    commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to incarceration for any term not exceeding 2 years or both.

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    (2)   For the purposes of subsection (1), a person shall be deemed to introduce an article into a correctional facility if he or she—

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      (a)     places it anywhere outside the correctional facility with intent that it shall come into the possession of an inmate;

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      (b)     conveys it to an inmate temporarily outside the correctional facility.