Prisoners paint their cell inside the renovated wing of the Najayo women's prison in San Cristobal, May 12, 2014. Ten years after the country opened its first prison designed with a focus on education and clean living conditions and staffed by graduates f
Prisoners paint their cell inside the renovated wing of the Najayo women's prison in San Cristobal, May 12, 2014. Ten years after the country opened its first prison designed with a focus on education and clean living conditions and staffed by graduates from a newly created academy for penitentiary studies, the New Model of Prison Management is gaining recognition from other countries in the region trying to reduce prison populations and cut recidivism rates. Picture taken May 12, 2014. Reuters/Ricardo Rojas
Prisoners paint their cell inside the renovated wing of the Najayo women's prison in San Cristobal, May 12, 2014. Ten years after the country opened its first prison designed with a focus on education and clean living conditions and staffed by graduates from a newly created academy for penitentiary studies, the New Model of Prison Management is gaining recognition from other countries in the region trying to reduce prison populations and cut recidivism rates. Picture taken May 12, 2014. REUTERS/Ricardo Rojas (DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS SOCIETY)

In the 1973 movie Papillon, the character played by actor Dustin Hoffman smuggled cash into prison by hiding it inside a metal canister which he hides by pushing it inside his anus.

Similar tricks have been tried by drug smugglers, but these are detected by high-tech body imaging machines or naked scanners.

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In Albuquerque, a 34-year-old female inmate managed to smuggle a gun inside the Metropolitan Detention Center by inserting the weapon not in her anus but in her vagina. Josephine McAllister actually managed to get past four guards without the gun being discovered, reports Pulse.ng.

Once inside, she hid it in the bathroom trash can which another prisoner discovered and told the guards.

McAllister was actually arrested for possession of stolen credit cards and resisting arrest in December. At that time, the weapon was hidden in her waistband which she didn't inform the police because she feared more charges would be filed against her, she claimed.

But prison officers doubt it was in her waistband because she was frisked four times, which led them to conclude the gun was hidden inside her private parts.

Officer Simon Drobik said that despite the search they have done, a weapon hidden inside the vagina would likely not be discovered by manual search. Drobik explained, "That area is out of the question. We cannot search a body cavity."

The woman said she did not intend to use the gun as she even disposed it in the trash can. She faces a new charge of smuggling contraband into a jail.

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