Prisons ‘awash with drugs and phones’
Prisoners in jails across the region have been using smuggled mobile phones to broadcast drug use and partying.
Inmates at prisons, including HMP Oakwood near Wolverhampton, have used the phones to post footage of their illicit activity despite being banned from having smartphones.
It comes after prison officers walked out of their workplaces on Friday amid fears of growing levels of violence in jails.
Glyn Travis, the assistant general secretary of union The Professional Trades Union for Prison, Correctional and Secure Psychiatric Workers (POA), said contraband is thrown over jail walls 'on a daily basis'.
It is even flown in by drone 'like a pizza delivery', while smugglers also conceal contraband on their bodies, he claimed.
