Tuesday 17 January 2017

In 3 months, Prison officers in England & Wales have seized 3,000 mobile phones & 2,000 SIM from inmates


Around 3,000 mobile phones have been seized by prison officers in England and Wales in just 12 weeks. The devices were discovered after a number of operations in jails between June and August 2016. During the same searches, a further 2,000 SIM and memory cards were found, reports Tom Wells at The Sun on Sunday. And it seems it isn't just mobile phones we are being smuggled into prisons across the country. During the same three-month period, drugs weighing 8.5 stone (about 54 Kg) were found, while 90 incidents involving drones were reported. The incidents involving the new and increasingly popular devices included some being flown over the prisons in order to drop banned substances over the walls.
Lord Marks, Lib Dem justice spokesman, told the paper that the prisons were 'careening out of control'. He said: 'Rising inmate numbers are straining facilities and overworked staff.'
The Prison Service warned that inmates caught smuggling items into jail could face sentences of up to two years.  The revelation comes after a bag which contained £28,000 worth of mobile phones and class A drugs was found close to Guys Marsh Prison near Shaftesbury, Dorset. No arrests have been made but police are investigating. The bag was found in November, but the discovery only came to light on Saturday.

2 comments:

  1. Tempted to say they are selling phones in there

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