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[SIZE="3"]A CBC I-Team investigation has uncovered disturbing facts about contraband in Manitoba's largest federal prison.
[B][COLOR="Red"]A large number of deadly weapons, along with anti-psychotic drugs, TV sets and even video game[/COLOR][/B] consoles were among items seized by correctional officers (COs) from cells at Manitoba's Stony Mountain Institution in the past two years.
Early in 2009, the prison was the scene of a violent riot followed by a prolonged lockdown lasting more than five weeks.
Violence broke out at the prison on Jan. 10 after tensions spilled over between rival street gangs.
A number of inmates barricaded themselves in one of the institution's medium-security cellblocks for about six hours.
The incident prompted the Union of Canadian Correctional Workers (UCCW) to describe the prison's environment as a "powder keg." A total of six inmates were injured, three seriously. One needed emergency surgery.
Four inmates have been charged in connection to the incident:

Audie Traverse, 28, charged with aggravated assault and assault with a weapon
Theodore Watt, 28, charged with assault
Randy Spence, 27, charged with aggravated assault and assault
Terence Brandon, 28, charged with aggravated assault and assault with a weapon
Robert Clarke of the UCCW told CBC News at the time there were a number of smaller situations that arose inside the institution in the buildup to the riot, and a number of weapons were seized at the start of the new year.
"We had a significant weapons seizure in the days prior to that incident at Stony Mountain, so I imagine things could have been a lot worse had the staff not recovered the amount of contraband they did," Clarke said.
War from street spills into prison: unionThe I-Team has obtained a detailed accounting of what CO's were seizing from prisoners prior to the riot.
Between Dec. 16, 2006 and Feb. 6, 2008, guards seized about 200 "shanks," or homemade stabbing weapons, 16 metal knives, weapons made out of sharpened bone, a sharpened steel hatchet and even a saw blade.
Thirty-five metal rods and clubs made from chair legs and pieces of broken mirror were also discovered.
Two black socks with hockey pucks inside were also taken away.
The UCCW said the weapons are stockpiled to extend street rivalries that continue unabated behind prison walls.
"There's a lot of wars that get fought out on the street as well as they do inside ... so inmates are arming themselves up for that war," UCCW spokesman Kevin Grabowsky said on Tuesday.
"It's something correctional officers are facing every day inside our institutions," he added.
CO's also made more than 260 seizures of drugs — hundreds of pills ranging from the high-powered sedative Seroquel to the smoking-cessation drug Zyban. More conventional street drugs like LSD, crack and hashish were also confiscated, along with drug paraphernalia.
The CBC investigation also uncovered 75 TV sets, Sony and Nintendo video game consoles, toaster ovens and larger stereos with speakers — even a flying kite.
According to the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC), prisoners are allowed to have TV sets up to a certain size, along with old game consoles that don't have the ability to connect to a wireless network, as newer equipment typically has.
But according to CSC policy, prisoners are not allowed to have items they own placed in another inmate's cell.
The CSC's policy doesn't spell out what kind of TVs or other entertainment devices are forbidden, but says on its website an inmate is allowed to have no more than $1,500 worth of what can be described as "leisure-type" articles of clothing and electronics in their possession.
A strange brewAccording to documents, inmates were also caught trying to make liquor in ways both conventional and bizarre.
Approximately 75 litres of unidentified brew was seized, with one haul amounting to 30 litres. Three cases of yeast were confiscated, along with bread dough.
Brew mash was also made out of crushed apples, the documents said.
In one seizure, 20 litres of ketchup was being used in an effort to make liquor from it.
All items were listed as being either destroyed or surrendered to the Crown.[/SIZE]