Extra X-ray machines in jails after 20,000 smuggling bids
MORE prisons are to get airport-style scanners after 20,000 smuggling plots were thwarted in the past two years.
In one haul, at an unidentified jail, the new security measures picked up 81 wraps of crack cocaine.
Dominic Raab says the £100million scheme will be extended to all new jails following the success of drugtrace machines and metal detection archways in 42 prisons. The Justice Secretary said: “We are enforcing our zero-tolerance approach to drugs, knives and mobile phones in prisons.”
More than 70 X-ray body scanners are operating in all closed male prisons while contraband tracers pick up microscopic smears of drugs such as Spice on mail and clothing.
Detection wands and drug dogs at prison gates mean staff can effectively search visitors for phones and weapons.