Cell phones for lags ‘is a positive step’

PRISONERS use laptops to select meals and submit orders to the jail shop, an inspection report reveals.

Inmates at HMP Wayland have also been given in-cell telephones to stay in touch with family.

The category C facility in Norfolk, holding nearly 1,000 men including more than 100 serving life sentences, had taken part in a “digitalisation project”.

The HM Inspectorate of Prisons report said: “These small laptops enabled them to take responsibility for tasks. Access to telephones and secure laptops was the way forward.

“Prisoners were positive about this development.”