A 43-year-old woman has been charged after illicit drugs were allegedly located in her possession at the Risdon Prison Complex on Friday. 

The woman was allegedly intercepted while she was attending the complex as a professional visitor conducting an authorised meeting with an inmate. 

She will appear before the Hobart Magistrates Court at a later date charged with 2x possess controlled drug and 2x unlawfully take unauthorised article into a prison.