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Prison teachers getting high from vaping in jails, TUC Congress told

PRISON teachers are getting high due to prisoners vaping in jails, TUC congress heard on Monday.

University College Union delegate Maxine Looby says she has been “absolutely horrified” by the conditions in prisons.

She told of prisoners using broken chairs as weapons during lessons in cramped windowless rooms belonging to the “Victorian age.”

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