Prisons: Illegal Drugs

Part of Justice – in the House of Commons at on 14 May 2024.

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Photo of Ruth Cadbury Ruth Cadbury Shadow Minister (Justice)

The Government boast, as they have done just now, about their investment in new body scanners to detect drugs on everyone entering a prison each day, yet a damning report in The Times found that the body scanners at HMP Bedford were not even staffed. What is the point in spending £100 million on scanners if they are not even used?