Sarnia Jail will be one of the first in Ontario to install full-body scanners.
The Correctional Services Minister announced Tuesday $9.5-million will be spent to install the advanced technology in the province's 26 jails and detention centres, over the next two years.
President of OPSEU Local 128 Joel Bissonnette says a scanner is expected to be at the Sarnia facility by the end of the 2016-2017 fiscal year.
"Drugs have always been a problem with contraband being smuggled in," says Bissonnette. "Kinder Eggs is the way they usually smuggle them in, they put stuff inside a Kinder Egg and that then goes inside a body cavity."
He says metal detectors can't pick those up.
"You can fit a fair amount of pills, tobacco or marijuana inside a Kinder Egg," says Bissonnette.
"I think full body scanners will eliminate a huge amount of contraband coming into the jails."
There are currently 47 correctional officers at the Sarnia Jail, that has 99 beds.
