One Place Not Under Constant Surveillance
2008 April 25
The BBC reports:
…Glyn Travis of the Prison Officers Association says inmates are happy to stay inside because they can get hold of drugs, mobile phones and even sex.
He said a dealer regularly broke into a Yorkshire prison by using a ladder to enter cell windows – but no inmate used the ladder as a means of escape…
…”It was an extraordinary case because none of the prisoners inside tried to escape, when no doubt they had the opportunity.
“It tells me something is wrong in society when people are breaking in to prisons to bring in drugs, but the prisoners are quite happy to stay inside,” Mr Travis said…
Maybe it is at least partly because they know they will be watched far more closely away from prison, than inside one?
