Carbon County officials are looking at procedural changes to stop drugs and other illegal objects from entering the prison.

Last week, Jacqueline Homschek, 24, of Kunkletown, an inmate at the Carbon County Correctional Facility, smuggled drugs and drug paraphernalia into the prison following a preliminary hearing on charges stemming from a January incident of smuggling drugs into the prison.According to court documents, the contraband, which included 50 bags of heroin, syringes and suboxone, was hidden in a district judge's bathroom by her boyfriend, Dylan L. Rahmann, 24, of Saylorsburg. Homschek then used the bathroom and hid the drugs and paraphernalia, which was wrapped in cellophane, inside her body, before being transported back to the prison.Warden Timothy Fritz said that the prison has a policy in place for inmates when they come back to the prison. Inmates complete a strip search, as well as squat down so that if there is any foreign object in the body cavity, it may fall out. It didn't in this case."We really can't do much different here than what we are doing," Fritz said, noting that district judges' officers are looking to change their procedures so future incidents like this one doesn't happen again. Changes include having the police search the bathroom prior to an inmate using it.He added that in the case like this, the prison relies on its corrections officers to spot any changes in behavior in the inmates.Officers reported that some of the females in H Block were showing signs of drug use and an investigation began."Unfortunately, inmates have 24 hours a day to try and figure out how to pull one over on us," Fritz said. "It's a constant battlethat we face here at the prison."