A former jail officer has lifted the lid on the intense methods inmates smuggle medication into excessive safety jails.
Lee Davies was a guard at Lancaster Farms younger offenders establishment, however in 2010 he was caught smuggling cocaine and mobiles into inmates and was sentenced to 12 years in jail.
The ex-officer stated he was sucked in by the chance for fast cash whereas incomes a median wage of £22,850.
However now the rehabilitated offender, who served 4 years of his sentence, works to unfold consciousness and affords assist to guards to keep away from the temptation, insisting that it’s ‘completely not price it’.
Talking to new YouTube channel DEEP for his or her explainer sequence DEEP X, he detailed the 5 key strategies criminals would possibly use to smuggle unlawful items into the jail, together with in condoms, foreign money and tennis balls.
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Lee Davies was a guard at Lancaster Farms younger offenders establishment earlier than he was jailed for 12 years in 2010 for smuggling cocaine and mobiles in to inmates
Aerial {photograph} of HM Lancaster Farms Jail. He would pocket £400 every time and as officer salaries begin at round £22,850 he thought it was a straightforward approach to earn more money
Within the interview with Deep X he detailed the 5 strategies criminals would use to smuggle contraband into the jail
Tennis Ball
Davies stated how tennis balls had been a easy approach to get product into the jail. Criminals lower them open and stuff them with medication, steroids, or sim playing cards earlier than chucking them over the ‘not that prime’ jail partitions.
Alternatively they whack the balls over the partitions utilizing a tennis rackets to assist ‘transport it a whole lot of metres’, making it simpler for the co-conspirators to go undetected.
Nonetheless, Mr Davies added that after it’s pinged into the train yard, anybody who sees it ‘will probably be going for it’, that means that there’s a a lot increased danger of getting caught by a guard or having to struggle off one other inmate who noticed it fly over the wall.
He believed the rationale folks use this methodology is as a result of the monetary acquire remains to be important, even in the event you lose a number of tennis balls of contraband within the course of.
‘It is a numbers recreation and issues in jail are price a hell of much more. So if we stuffed it [the tennis ball] with hashish, [there] isn’t a fantastic deal [that can fit in the ball] however in jail it will probably promote for ten occasions extra.’
These may be filled with medication, steroids, or sim playing cards and thrown into the jail, as ‘jail partitions will not be that prime’
Jail Letters
All incoming submit to a jail is strictly checked, so to place medication immediately into an envelope would possible result in it being found, Mr Davies stated.
Nonetheless, smugglers have tried to get round this by as a substitute dousing letters in ‘spice or different medication’, which might then be heated up in cells by prisoners, to be used.
He continued that though all checks are thorough, it may be troublesome to detect, particularly with a unadorned eye.
‘In the event you douse this in medication and ship 5 letter, it simply take ones of them to get by means of. We aren’t that prime safety particularly within the native prisons and Cat d or Cat C [low security prisons], so some will get by means of,’ he informed Deep X.
Nonetheless the most recent trick by these serving to smuggle medication into jail is to douse letters in ‘spice or different medication’, that are then heated up in cells by prisoners to be used
Drones
Drones are a rising downside for prisons, because of technological developments drones are actually capable of fly over the fences and hover immediately outdoors a felons cell window.
Mr Davies stated: ‘They’ll hover outdoors somebody’s window with precision. All you want is an attachment and a bag of medication and since they’ve cameras on them you’ll be able to pinpoint the place it’s being delivered.
‘It’s mainly like Amazon occasions ten.’
Punishments for these crimes can be just like outdoors prices. Prisoners can be segregated inside the jail if caught.
Earlier than being despatched to the courts to be formally dealt with, with a excessive danger of additional time being added onto their sentence.
Drones have turn out to be an elevated danger for jail guards, because of technological developments drones are actually capable of fly over the fences and hover immediately outdoors a felons window
Forex
Regardless that transactions are performed outdoors jail partitions, bodily cash can nonetheless be used to move medication into the jail as guests can carrying money on them into the power.
‘Money will at all times be king even in jail,’ Mr Davies stated, ‘It could actually [hidden] in a bra. It may be wrapped and folded.
‘And males can secrete it of their behind and in addition of their foreskin.’
He continued that the rationale it’s such an efficient smuggling methodology is as a result of officers must get particular powers to ‘cavity search’ somebody.
‘When you find yourself having a strip search you must have particular dispensation to cavity search somebody. So it’s a protected wager that in the event you can cover one thing inside there, it’s not going to get discovered.’
He added: ‘Individuals will go to any extremes in there to get what they need and conceal issues from the officers.’
Regardless that transactions are performed outdoors jail partitions, bodily cash can nonetheless be used to move medication into the jail as guests are allowed to enter with cash
Condoms
Mr Davies stated that condoms are most likely the commonest approach of attempting to get contraband into a jail due to their sturdiness.
‘They are often stuffed with medication. They are often swallowed, held within the throat, the lengths folks will go to, blows my thoughts,’ Mr Davies stated.
Relying on the kind of medication, somebody could possibly be sneaking in £4000 – £5000 price of product within the jail in a single condom, so it’s extremely worthwhile.
Including: ‘[They] may also be secreted in a vagina or an anus after which retrieved in the bathroom. The lubrication means it will probably simply slide in wherever.’
He continued that such a smuggling was not straightforward and often folks can be despatched in for a ‘pretend go to’ with an inmate, actually with the intention of dropping off contraband.
‘The folks doing this will probably be effectively seasoned execs, they won’t even be entering into to see a customer.’
Relying on the kind of medication, somebody could possibly be sneaking in £4000 – £5000 in a single condom
