Birmingham prison inmates' letters laced with drugs

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The material, purportedly from prisoners' legal teams, was intercepted by HMP Birmingham staff.

The report by HMP Birmingham's Independent Monitoring Board found standards are improving

More than 300 pages of "solicitors letters" were laced with drugs and sent to inmates during a prison's Covid-19 lockdown.Staff's efforts emerged in a report on standards since an inspector called the prison the worst he had ever seen.HMP Birmingham's Independent Monitoring Board has been assessing progress for the 12 months since July 2019, when the government took over the site full time from private security firm G4S.

Instances of violence and drug use have fallen, and the board concedes it is related, yet only in part, to prisoners spending most of the day in cells during the enforcement of Covid-19 restrictions. Amid national lockdown, the prison experienced an influx of letters laced with psychoactive substances .

They were marked as Rule 39 solicitors letters - messages between inmates and legal counsel that by law cannot be read by prisons unless contraband is suspected.

 

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