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Pruno, also known as prison hooch or prison wine, is a term used in the United States to describe an improvised alcoholic beverage. It is variously made from apples , oranges , fruit cocktail , fruit juices , hard candy , sugar , high fructose syrup , and possibly other ingredients, including crumbled bread . [ 1 ]
Sale and consumption of alcohol is legal in most parts of India other than four states including Gujarat. According to the World Bank 22.5% of 1.3 billion Indians live below the poverty line. Illicit hooch is brewed in villages and then smuggled to the cities for sale at cost of ₹ 8 (9.2¢ US), one third of the cost of legally brewed liquor. [5]
Adulteration of cheap liquor by methyl alcohol resulted in deaths. Availability of cheap spurious alcohol (known as hooch) is a problem around the Tannery Road area of the Bangalore Cantonment, with many dwellers getting addicted. Notorious bootlegger Marimuthu (who later became a councillor of BBMP) and Ameer Jan were running the operation. [2]
Gujarat had banned alcohol consumption since 1960 as a homage to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. However bootlegged alcohol, known as Hooch, is widely available, allegedly under the patronage of the local police. [2] Gujarat has witnessed several occasions of alcohol poisoning, claiming the lives of more than 400 people after the ban was enforced. [3]
This page is a list of terms related to the psychoactive drug alcohol. 0-9 0-0-1-3 ... Blood alcohol content ... A drunk tank is a jail cell or separate facility ...
A former officer at the Benton County jail who smuggled drugs and cellphones to inmates was sentenced in federal court to three years and 10 months in prison on Tuesday.. Eric Christian, 34 ...
The package contained meth, cocaine, “various pills, suboxone strips, a syringe, 3 disposable vapes, and 1 re-usable vape stick with 2 cartridges suspected to be THC,” police said.
A former deputy jailer at the Kenton County Detention Center, who admitted to smuggling contraband into the facility in exchange for online payments, will spend five years in prison.