A MOUNT ST THOMAS woman will face court next month after allegedly attempting to take drugs into the South Coast Correctional Centre.
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Police allege about 10am Saturday the woman went to the correctional centre at South Nowra to visit a prisoner.
Correctional centre staff allegedly saw the woman acting suspiciously while at the visitor counter.
Correctional staff searched the woman and found a quantity of prohibited and prescription drugs.
Shoalhaven police attended the centre, conducted investigations and arrested the 27-year-old woman.
She was taken to Nowra Police Station and charged with bring/introduce small quantity of drug into a detention centre; bring/introduce prescribed poison into a place of detention and possess prohibited drug.
She was granted conditional bail to appear before Nowra Local Court on August 18.
