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.