PRISONERS are becoming drug addicts while serving their sentences and then being discharged with dependency problems, an inspection of HMP Lindholme has found.
A Prisons Inspectorate report on the jail near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, said that drugs were being delivered by drones and that there were no X-ray machines or searches at the prison gate.
Inspectors also found that the prison’s excellent gym facilities were underused due to a shortage of instructors and that activity programmes were non-existent for the same reason.
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AN “alarming” ingress of drugs at a prison led to the most inmate deaths in Wales and England last year, inspectors reveal today.