25 Prison Guards In England Mass Poisoning, Allegedly Eating Menu Buried With Synthetic Cannabis

JAKARTA - A total of 25 guards at the HMP Swaleside detention center in England were poisoned. Toxics are thought to be due to food menus for guards being poisoned by inmates employed in prison canteens.

The guards at the detention center with a high level of security in the Sheppey Island area, Kent, who were victims of poisoning are now receiving intensive treatment at the hospital.

Quoting Metro.co.uk, Friday, May 17, the initial suspicion that the special cari menu for guards was covered with spices containing synthetic cannabinoids and New Psychoactive Substances (NPS).

The spice content causes a drunken feeling like synthetic marijuana and triggers mood swings, anxiety, solidarity, shaking to convulsions.

A spokesman for the UK Criminal Justices Union (CJWU) said inmates employed in the detention center canteen had a low risk of being negative.

That's because prisoners have to test first before they are allowed to prepare and serve food to prison staff. The test concerns the measure of crime risk if employed in a prison environment.

"It's not uncommon for inmates to work as canteen staff (in detention centers), it's also thought to have a low risk, which obviously didn't happen in this case," CJWU said in a statement.