How drugs are smuggled into UK prisons
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- čas přidán 18. 05. 2024
- The rehabilitation of offenders is one of the stated aims of His Majesty's prison service.
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Jails, supposedly, a corrective for those who break the law. But an exclusive investigation by this programme can tonight reveal how a sophisticated criminal economy thriving inside prisons is not only impacting staff and inmates but spilling out into communities and harming families outside.
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Besides, your son played you. You don't get drugs forced on you. Ive done 8 yes, a few sentences and loads of different prisons. No one makes you do anything, you go looking for it
Yes you do, this is bs victim mentality
Your in jail do your bird and stop bitching and lying..
Literally, see how she shifted the blame at the end after saying she spent 50k. “The system made him an addict” not her glazing him. But yh the system is broken, just stupid example, and bad parent. Her only example is paying for his holidays. Really speaks a lot about her parenting style.
Exactly, it is a choice that some people do out of been bored
Absolutely
@@kingayman5225 well said She clearly was funding his holiday people never own up for their poor decision-making
Drug free wing?! Isn't prison supposed to be drug free...
Ikr.
A drug free wing was like a covid free ward in hospital a few years ago. Unfortunately I was locked last year. I got transferred to a brand new prison. Where I was, was right opposite one of these so called drug free wings. There excise yard was right by my window and every time they came out for excise they would bang on my window asking for so and so to go there. Obviously to buy drugs.
@@smith2781how many rap#$ were you in for 😅
@@mo6278 😂🤣. Funny. The scary thing is though if I was I probably would of got less time😂. I was in there for fraud and money laundering.
Dream on pal
What bs the prison official ain't got a fkg clue most prison staff are on the take
And lazy bstrds
They know, but they also know they can’t replace prison officers. So they refuse to do anything
Those in charge of the prison are behind the drugs business
Everybody gotta eat do what you gotta do ay
Especially since prisoners now go through body scanners that can c in the whole body
No one should be surprised at this. As shocking as it may be, it is the reality of British prisons.
Well f#ck them for getting themselves put there.
this is unacceptable needs to be address immediately
Why??
Are U thick @@babajaga158
Addressed
Deportation?
Her is a druggie who still sponges of his mother! You need to wake up immediately!
How did the system make him a addict you said yourself he was taking drugs before he went to prison so stop blaming everyone else it's your sons fault
Spice is very different. Gain more knowledge on a subject first
@@Zagadoo607 I've just finished a 10yr sentence so I know exactly wot spice is doing to people in prison but just cause there's drugs in jail it doesn't mean you've got to take them and run up drug debts so he should face the consequences if you ask me 🤣🤣
Before the video I had an advert featuring a drone flying a package
CZcams at work.
The ALGORITHM 😅
Same here!😂😂
Prisons could probably stop drones 30 mtrs from the walls by jamming the signals.
I went to jail as a pot head and came out clean as a whistle. Spice and heroin were rife. Got offered spice and said no.
She clearly don't know her son 😂
It’s sad! She really doesn’t know her son. He played her! Mama ran to the media 😩😩
I dont get it. Heroin I understand for its euphoric blanket. But Spice? Its fucking horrible just put those who take it into a stooper. And then hes on Crack when hes out? The son isnt telling the whole truth here was likely a willing participant in the beginning. Total failure by Wandsworth Prison though, he should have been placed in protective custody.
They smoke it because it makes the sentence pass by quicker
If you’re a tolerant smoker then some synthetic cannabinoids can be decent if done diy, some of them can be weird and similar to dissociatives like ketamine where you’re kind of just zombie like, some of them are actually less anxious and more functional .etc you never know what you’re getting if you buy it from someone it could be JWH or 5F ADB or something more fucked
Also the spice on the streets has brodifacoum rat poison in it if you talk to the authorities, it blocks the enzyme from breaking the drug down so you get longer effects and people bleed / bruise easier on it then once they’re in withdrawal it’s more severe 🤣
@Eekamouse420 Tried it when spice was legal, believe it was jwh008. But there's waaay too much uncertainty with the synthetics available in jail that I'd even consider 🚬 them...
I was an addict, clean since 2009. Ive been to prison & never once was i forced to take any drugs. Don't get me wrong, inmates bring it in & so do some staff, but no one is forced to take drugs in prison. This guy obviously wanted weed, couldn't get any so took the spice instead. Anyone who's been in prison would know this. This guy needs to learn accountability & so does the mother. UK & Aust prisons are far better than the US prisons, at least inmates are given the chance to rehabilitate. This mother says ger sons now an addict & the system isn't being accountable. Well how about your son takes accountability & maybe his life would change 4 the better. Pathetic.
Prison didn’t ‘make’ your son an addict… he chose to use drugs to avoid fronting up to the consequences of whatever actions put him in prison…
You yourself say he was a weed user before he even went in …
Taking no accountability for our own actions are the base of all addicts problem and I know, I was one for years… I have been sober for 16 yrs thank goodness for the support of 12 step groups… there are many 12 step groups inside, your son could choose to attend those and not use drugs instead ??
Shame you didn’t experience prison it may of humbled you.
@@JacquelineWillis-ki2zr there is no ‘not being humble’ in my comment …
You have no idea what I have experienced in my life, … BUT none of these things made me an addict…
People experience the same horrific things as me or this chap, and don’t turn to drugs or booze like we did
Drug use is a choice…. We use drugs instead of facing our life and the consequences of our behaviour
I BEEN IN PRISON ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS NO ONE FORCES DRUGS ON YOU IS YOU DECIDING YOU WANT THEM OR NOT
It's the same in Ireland. It has to be the prison officers bringing the stuff in
9/10 his making it up squeezing him family out of their money to support the habit happens more than you know
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What bs loads of videos on CZcams about men bullying other men for money and the officer putting them on the list ect.. Hmp freestyle UK.
I’ve seen someone do that before in jail fr
@@Noname-oo9gn shut up and don’t talk on what u don’t know, I’ve been jail and seen it done live one white boy was manipulating his Stepdad cos he hates him but he has money and would always pay
@@Noname-oo9gn how is it bs you never been jail no so shut up lad i been there and seen it happen not all is what it seems
The drugs that are now available on today's streets AND in Prisons is totally insane, the internet changed all that.
What does internet have to do with it? Drugs have always been in prisons, nothing new about that. Just makes it clear the "war on drugs" is never going to succeed, when we can't even stop them reaching people locked up 24/7.
There’s always been a vast amount of stuff in there, it’s just the drugs that changed because prison brought in tests to detect the old ones.
No, thats incorrect. A lot of the drugs that orignaly got banned, weed, ecstacy etc meant that people then tried to take chemicals that are really very similar but produce different effects. Spice for example is a cannabis replacement, the first few versions werent actualy that bad but then the government banned them so more dangerous versions were produced. the entire blame lays on the government and the police.
It's easier to get H than it is to get a sleeping tablet from your doctor.
@@bakerbaker4455 Weed Ecstasy & Coke have always been banned, what you smoking Bruv ?
I'm taking about ACCESS TO, AVAILABILITY TO, to SOURCE etc etc etc
FK you on aboot spewing legal high talk, fix up and READ!
So many children have had their lives stolen from organised criminals inside and outside of prison. The hardest thing is when you as a parent step up to try to stop it happening and find that no one is listening. This mother has done well to get this issue out into the open and aired on screen. So many parents are struggling because of situations like these, and they all feel so alone within their own situation. Thank you for being a voice for those who have been silenced ❤
How drugs are smuggled into prisons...
Like we need a documentary. 😂
Hmp freestyle UK... Loads of videos of men partying, doing drugs ect.
prisoners office is a drug dealer
Well since they have scanners a netting in most yards not it's mostly visits a bend civilian workers a odd screw
@@CarlBland-tn1jo no Jails have nets over the yard
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'My son who got sent to jail certainly wasn't at all interested in drugs _until_ he went to prison.'
I totally believe you dude!
Thank you he’s right I was there. I hope your son is well today.
He was using drugs before he went jail FACT. He was a criminal who got locked up and criminals always use some form of drug and get locked up for doing dumb stuff to feed there habit and you didn't see it, You got took for a fool . The people i spent my life around was the same all taking drugs and getting locked up for doing things they shouldn't have gotten caught for and all there moms and dads thought the sun shined out there back ends but they where wrong to.
It's called will power
Who have you contacted to sue or whatever that is very strong?
0:02 two seconds in & the answer is the prison officers bringing majority of it in. Thats what happens when you pay people minimum wage for a high risk job
Lost my bro to OD in prison, he was doing 2 years for speeding & possession of cannabis & was his 1st offence. I’m not saying that makes what he did ok, as it doesn’t & our entire fam pay the price.
It's odd how there's no mention (that I heard!) of why he was in jail in the first place
Most probably committing crimes to fund his drug habit
she said due to weed?
I feel sorry for the mum and I don’t doubt that the son was being extorted but I get a feeling that the son was also extorting the mum to buy drugs as well! Very tragic situation RIP 😢
sorry for what her son was in prison for a reason he broke the law
She really should face him and say unequivocally “no more”. Leave his situation with him.
RIP?! he's not even dead!
I can tell you now the son was taking mum for a mug...when you prison no 1 forces you to take drugs..but if you buy drugs u better pay or else your gonna get delt with and your family are in danger too
Yeah i did the same used to tell my mom I needed 50 pound a day for gas n electric they love us n want believe us but come on addicts are manipulative
Prison must be the worst place to be. Stay out of there.
Not bad enough for people to not commit crimes clearly
@@gursisingh1940 Nature reigns supreme.
of course the prison won't do anything! They don't wanna lose out on their drug money!
It's just some corrupt officers on the make, not organised crime run by Governors. You are believing conspiracy theories.
So your son decided he wanted to do drugs and you funded it. Well done
Maybe if she had taught her criminal son that consequences have actions and didn’t prop up his bad behaviour he wouldn’t be in prison!
That was exactly my thought. Son extorted the poor mum.
The screws bring it in and exploit the prisoners.
A most r in there for exploiting sum one so f them
Screws usually take phones in and tobacco. Drugs are flown in with drones or thrown over by hand / make shift sling shots
If the governments wanted to stop it they could simple as that
Our government isn't capable of stopping anything.
Section 8 of The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 makes it an offence for a person who is an occupier or is concerned in the management of premises to knowingly permits or suffers any of the following activities to take place on those premises, that is to say-
(a)producing or attempting to produce a controlled drug in contravention of section 4(1) of this Act;
(b)supplying or attempting to supply a controlled drug to another in contravention of section 4(1) of this Act, or offering to supply a controlled drug to another in contravention of section 4(1);
(c)preparing opium for smoking;
(d)smoking cannabis, cannabis resin or prepared opium. - So why not prosecute prison governors and staff under this section?
Er, Drugs won that war; or have you been living under a rock? I could get Class As quicker than a JustEat rn.
Do you need answer to that silly question ??
Think you already know answer to it on why that doesn't happen
SO WHAT YOU SAYING ITS THE PRISONS FAULT… HOW ABOUT THE JUDGE… OR MAYBE HIS SCHOOL TEACHER… BUT WHAT ABOUT HIS PARENTS… I KNOW THE ANSWER AND ITS NOTHING IVE WRITEN…
"He got moved to a drug-free wing"
Did I hear that right? No attempt to hide the inverse, they have a known drug-wing o.0
no its a detox wing where they cant mix with other prisoners to prevent things getting on that wing, for heroin addicts first few weeks so they dont die from withdrawal
Regular drug tests and perks. Helps sort the quiet lads from the ones bang at it
banning tobbaco was a stupid idea
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Without tobacco, they ads are more likely to turn to another worse drug which may or may not be interferred with.
The banning of baccy was by design, imo.
Yeah what happened was obernight cig becomame £5 and a pipe of spice is £1 so everyone switched to smoking spice in a pipe and people got stabbed over cigarettes 🤦
@@timberengineer madness b
Hmp ranby had prisoners fighting over a burn you also have prisoners bullying other inmates for tabbaco
Just take your son to a rehab.
The last time i was in prison the staff who worked for security team inside the place used to bring copious amounts in. Ironically the job of the security team is to stop stuff coming in 😂
The title should be: my child was convicted of a crime, went to prison and became a drug addict....
Prisons in the UK are in crisis have been for years, and it will continue for many years
The dealers weren't exploteing your son you're son was ticking the drugs to take so he should pay his debt or face the consequences he's a adult at the end of the day I've been in and out of prison my whole life and never had any trouble with anything they moved your son to a different prison and he kept ticking the drugs so it's his own fault
Here is another idea. tell your son to stop taking the drugs. the debt build up is his drug habit building up.
I mean you clearly have no understanding or experience with drug addiction. Life is never that simple/.
@@bakerbaker4455 Speculation is the mother of all stupidity, It is that simple, its called willpower and not being able to afford the drugs. No payments would have give him the beating he needed to wake himself up. He then has the proper choice of getting his rocks off and getting a beating or not getting himself high and having no more problems. His Mum should have let them give him the first beating, problem sorted. Its not wise to speculate, OK Buttercup.
@@bakerbaker4455 Smack and crack heads steal from their families, he stole directly from his Mum using his dealers violence as the leverage.
Well if she didn't pay he wouldn't have been able to buy them. So cut off the funding pipeline and he can't buy.
Man's mum said my son was addicted to smoke weed
your son shouldn't consume drugs. simple as. problem solved
World drug problem solved by a single sentence. How come we didn't think of that...?
@@caramida9it’s the fact very simple but human beings do stupid thing. We all know it’s stupid and wrong but people still do it.
No wonder the mother would not show her face after what she did! SHE IS RESPONSIBLE!!!!!
How is she responsible? He was an adult and made his own choices. I feel complete sympathy for her as the prison system let them both down.
@@benhartley2486he was putting the squeeze on her to.
@pjg_77 Definitely, mate. Until you're ready for recovery, nothing can prevent you from using, and you will do everything you can to use. He mugged off his family for money to continue using imo.
This comment is bollox (in my opinion).
I was a horrible druggy, alcoholic, violent criminal back in the day an served 19 years all together for (most) of my actions in my younger years, I come from a family that are and always have been completely law abiding, non drug taking, not even any smokers in my family. They all have there own homes, many have businesses if not they work or retired. Even my little cousins that haven’t hit 25 yet have there own homes that was brought buy themselves.
I was taking all kinds of drugs, drinking all the time, was a horrible person to be around o can imagine. I was actively looking to commit crimes all day and night long. It wasn’t until my mother passed away that something clicked In my head, in my heart, in my personality and in my conscious and became a completely different person.
I agree there are families that just breed criminals and horrible people that will not contribute to society in any way shape or form. The only way to eradicate this is by them to stop mating and producing more of them.
@@Crimetvuk if you were my son, I’d have taken justice into my own hands and saved the taxpayer prison costs 🔨⚖🔨
Yes this is true I became a heroin addict in prison never did it until I went inside I never got in debt because I hustled in there. But it's not right and there's thousands of ppl like us.
What made u choose to do it
What a waste of space 😂
@@Tom-tp1jv being locked up in a small concreate or brick box room for most of the day? not drugs person myself, but as mind altering effects, side of it? I for one would like being lock small box room, all day mind unhinged, and free to do what's wants, that should more scary the drugs it self, and jail time punishment
Wasteman
Number 1. Your son shouldn't have been a naughty boy... Number 2. I doubt they pinned him down and forced drugs upon him... Number 3. He was probably already a druggy...
Prison didn't make your son a drug addict 😅 he made himself an addict . If hes getting into dept in prison hes cleary a fiend for drugs . Iv been to prison and i know what type of people get into dept . Thier the type to swap thier dinner for a rollup . Stop blaming the prison and channel 4 is a joke fordocumenting this with this title
she supported his habit basically...
Enabled moreso
Come and have a look in supported accomodation and hostels in Birmingham if you want to see some alarming situations if there is concern at this there is 10 times worse here.
What a load of bullCrap blaming the prison for her Sons Addiction to Spice ie. Synthetic cannabis.
No one forces you to buy and smoke drugs.
I have seen Grown men litterally CRY and BEG for a little bit of SPICE.
For this mother to blame everyone other than her own son is Crazy.
Tell him not to break the law and he won't be in there.
This happened to a child hood friend of mine when he last went to jail he never made it out.. bad reaction to spice n something else 🤔 he passed in prison.. rip Jason Williams 🕊️
Lol own fault zero symptoms
😂😂😂
Its hard to believe that some people still think that prison will cure "weed addiction"
One day people will take accountability for their own actions.
Not anytime soon.
I know people who worked in security vans years ago they were only allowed a flask and a butty a day in the van everyday. They unscrewed the the flask and put 60 pound coins in the bottom every day . Then they took a sock off to stop rattles ,You would see staff leaving the yard with one sock on at 7pm from the yard 5 days a week .
He shouldn't be putting his family through that. He should have used jail to get clean and sober. It's a lifestyle choice.
The interview starts with He tried, are they forgetting every decision in life a choice.. isn’t it the poor Decisions he made that put him there
Got moved, them immediately has depts... yeah your son was playing you. And no one made your son and addict other than HIM.
do not contact the screws they will make the situation worse they will lock him in a room with the drug dealer
Doubtful. He's dead.
😢 unfortunately, this has been going on for decades now and only perpetuated with the amount of illigals in the prison system.
illegal drug dealers? tell me more..
@@alistairmurray626 I think they mean illegal immigrants
A billion pound.
Industry with one hundred million pound to fight it doesn't make sense
Weed addiction 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Joke innit. Try cold turkey heroin n then moan bout a "weed addiction" 😅
Great leadership mate, as soon as asked a hard question look how angry he got.
She's telling you how it works in jail yet she hasn't stayed a single night in jail.. this all could have been avoided if her son just said "no" I don't want drugs. It's all his fault no1 to blame except himself
Remember that innocent people do wrongly go to prison, sometimes for many years.
Also decent people who simply cannot afford their council tax.
All she had to do was say no to the cash demands. He might have got done over once and then moved.
If he chose to repeat his behaviour then obviously that's on him.
What? a prisoner sent an off duty screw to deliver to someone on road? madness
"Prison Made My Son A Drug Addict" - Yeah and you made him a Criminal if you are blaming the environment solely and not the actual Individual Persons decisions they made in life.. *smh*
Our religious know that to beat a child makes that child bad and to beat a bad child makes that child worse. Manually fulfilled prophesies.
Sorry but that’s her son’s fault. I’ve seen it first hand they’ll buy drugs and then rely on family members to pay it for them. They know what happens when they can’t pay but they take the risk anyway.
As for him saying the officers bringing it to him he knew his mum would ring the prison. He was probably hoping to get transferred or sent to the block. They do anything to get away from them.
IT NEEDS TO BE SPOKEN ABOUT FOR MUCH LONGER THAN 16 MINUTES.
Bro soon as i landed it was chicken leg for a dab of spice
Hahaha fuk spice but each to their own.. I swapped a few chicken legs for a box of vapes though
(1 leg per box) hard times
Actually I remember it was 1 vape cap actually SMH.. Sorry for spamming u
Listen, your son made himself an addict. Plenty of people have been to jail and not come out as addicts. You make a choice to take drugs it’s not forced on you.
Maybe her son should man up n do something about it himself
"So, her Son still being extorted after being moved to another Prison, points to drugs not just being an issue in Wandsworth Prison..." !?!?
How utterly naive of her to assume that drugs wouldn't be a problem in other Prisons besides Wandsworth Prison....
Poor guy poor lad the prison service is messed drugs are all in jail worse than the roads
If you keep out of trouble you won't end up in prison in the first place. Your son has no one to blame except himself.
If your son doesn't want to change then let life change him, the hard way.
This is why I can’t stand people who are taking drugs
How silly can someone be getting scammed by there own son , she needed to tell her son tough .
Prison didnt make the son an addict, the son made the son an addict!!
He placed himself in the prison. Not a victim.
Thank you ❤😢
She says nobody is taking account for her son been a bag head. Perhaps he should?? I've been infront of heavy drugs most my life been offered them and never decided to take crack or spice...infact turned it down. Stop deflecting and take responsibility for your actions
I remember my first day on the induction Wing and all I got offered was a bowl of cornflakes, not drugs 🤣 no offence but your son definitely asked for the drugs when he arrived and obviously didn't realise the consequences.
What's overcrowding got to do with a prison officer going to someone house to deliver drugs.
Let me know if you want a contact for a probation officer too
His debt his problem tough love
It's the gabapentin and mirtazapine and subutex 😂
Pre Gabs (pregablin) not gabapentin
@@Johnnycasshh yes
@@Johnnycasshh I'd imagine a 300mg gabapentin would cost on the inside what a 300 pregablin costs on the out. Both are sold in prisons.
And spice 😂.
@@Johnnycasshhwhat makes you think gabas aren’t abused ?? 😂. 😅
They gave him spice he messed up
This has been going on for years in men’s and women’s prisons! I know I was there! The prison service know this is happening, prison guards even bring the drugs in! And the medical staff give out free drugs from there stations. The whole prison service needs to be reformed I know of hundreds of people who walk in prison drug free and fall out of prison with a large dru habit having never taken drugs before. It’s so sad…
I remember going to visit a mate in barlinnie, searched my pockets and looked in mouth - search complete. I couldn't believe how easy it would have been to smuggle drugs. Mate said you could get any drug at anytime in there, he didn't take drugs though. He got moved to Kilmarnock jail i went to see him there, scans, searched, dogs the lot before i got in, totally different. Mate said there was still loads of drugs in there to though
Seems like the guards are in on it. Corrupt to the core
I swear they use those yellow kinder egg containers and shove it up where the sun don’t shine to smuggle it in don’t they?😂
I'M SURE THEY HAVE LESS PAINFUL WAYS TO DO THAT.
Correcto
Kinder eggs? Ofc they do.
I wouldn't be SUPRISED lol
Goes in through the food delivery’s and the prison guards are the main dealers in there
Clearly, all starts from poor management, put lower ranked prison workers on low income. And expecting them not to get enticed, by a higher risk, bigger reward. Scheme.
Thank you.
But who is smuggling the drugs into the prison.
Casper apparently
Hmp freestyle UK.. Loads of videos on CZcams of staff partying with inmates, kissing inmates ect ect.
Only smoked weed before jail
4 year sentence
Hooked on heroin
Once released took me 3 years to get clean
THE STRUGGLES REAL
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jails ruin lives
Only a minority change like myself
Typical, your son is the problem cos hes smoking all the spice knowing that you will pay. His addiction causes your pocket loss. If your son had any heart he wouldnt put you in that position.
Should block mobile phone signals in prison!
Mobiles were not that expensive 2 year ago, i was offered one for £250. Charge it using your vape charger or the USB port on TV...
I don't doubt that your son became deeply involved in drugs in prison.
People are so convinced shutting people who break laws up in prison is some kind of solution, but post too many prisons are poorly run, leaving naive new prisoners to struggle with the strong armed tactics of more "seasoned" prisoners who've learned how to work around any roadblocks guards may try to put in place.
Sounds like visitors aren't searched very well before they interact with prisoners, if they are the main sources of incoming drug supplies and cell phones.
Having a relative in prison has to be hard enough for the family outside, having lost the income and support of prisoners, without having the extortion going on within the prison that ends up causing more stress, fear than before family member enters prison.
And why is your son in prison? That was the start of his downfall.