‘Prisons are awash with drugs’ - Inside Time Newspaper

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‘Prisons are awash with drugs’ - Inside Time Newspaper: "£100 million worth of drugs are smuggled into prisons every year but there is a worrying lack of knowledge about how they get there

It is an open secret that our prisons are awash with drugs. The evidence points to the fact that the bulk of drug dealing, as well as the smuggling of mobile phones, into prisons is highly organised and involves the collusion of around 1000 corrupt members of prison staff – an average of seven for every prison in England and Wales."