00:00Well these are two inspection reports that we put out today from jails that we
00:04were in during the autumn and what is particularly concerning is Long Lart in
00:10Worcestershire and Manchester Prison are both holding some of
00:15the riskiest men in the country and what we found in this report was that drones
00:19were getting into the jails, were delivering packages to individual cells
00:25and some of these were containing drugs, some were containing mobile phones but
00:30most concerning of all is that weapons are getting into prisons which are
00:34holding terrorist offenders and bosses of organized crime gangs. Manchester
00:39Prison was in a real state for many other reasons, so prisoners were locked
00:42up in their cells too long, there were vermin around the prison, we saw rats
00:47everywhere we went and the place was pretty much in chaos. Long Lart wasn't
00:52quite at that stage but it was this influx of drones that we were seeing
00:56into both jails in different ways because prisoners at Manchester were
01:01getting drugs through windows whilst at Long Lart we were seeing packages
01:05delivered by drones which were disguised as things like rubbish bags. So these are
01:10sophisticated organized criminals who are managing to get some large quantities
01:14of contraband into prisons that are holding some of the riskiest men in the
01:18country and what we found is things like security systems weren't working
01:21properly, so CCTV was broken, we found that netting which is useful to keep
01:26drones out, again that wasn't working. At Manchester the windows were often broken
01:31and the replacement windows were being burnt out by prisoners who'd realized
01:35that actually they could burn a hole through the window by ripping the
01:39element out from their kettle. So in both jails in different ways we were seeing
01:44large quantities of contraband coming in with the potential for weapons and an
01:49attempt at things like escape or to cause serious disruption in these
01:53prisons and that isn't fair on the other prisoners but critically it also isn't
01:57fair on the people who work in these jails.
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