Sugar Banned In Prison

[emily1890]

Sugar has been banned from Channings Wood prison near Newton Abbot, Devon,
after guards found stashes of “hooch” being made
from mixing sugar with natural yeast such as fruit or bread and left to ferment into an alcoholic homebrew. An annual report from the Independent Monitoring
Board said the DIY alcoholic beverage was found throughout the year at the Devon prison. A prison service spokesperson said: "Illicitly brewed alcohol
fuels violence and crime in prisons which is why we are cracking down on it." Channings Wood is a category C training and resettlement prison housing more

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-60644361

[barry1010]

Good

[Cloverjo]

Also, if that tv show with Sean Bean is right, the prisoners use sugar to inflict horrible burns on inmates.

[youngmafbog]

Sounds reasonable to me.

Now crack down on the drugs.

[lankeela]

I don't understand how prisoners are able to do such things, don't they have CCTV - and as for smuggling in phones, drugs etc why don't they have a glass barrier between visitors and prisoners?

[Cloverjo]

If that tv show I mentioned earlier is correct, the prison wardens get the stuff in.

[albaqwerty]

It's certainly one possibility Clover, and I wouldn't be surprised if they take turns. Anything to keep the population compliant and easy to control.

[barry1010]

That's not the only reason guards smuggle illicit goods in to prison.
Sometimes the guard is 'in love' with a prisoner; sometimes very frightened of a prisoner or is being blackmailed; sometimes the guard is bent and is being paid a lot of money by someone outside.

I agree about the screen between visitors and prisoners, there should be no physical contact. Better still use Skype or Facetime