Lags getting high on deadly drug ‘spice’ after it’s sprayed onto kids’ drawings and smuggled into prison
DEADLY drugs are being smuggled into jail every day in children’s drawings – according to a damning new documentary secretly filmed INSIDE jail.
Channel 4’s hard hitting new show The Secret Life Of Prisons has been illegally filmed by prisoners inside UK jails including HMP Bullingdon, on banned mobile phones.
The film exposes how deadly drug Spice – known inside by rhyming slang “Katie Price” or “legal advice” - is smuggled on kids’ crayon drawings.
In the show, a convicted contraband smuggler dubbed “Paula” sprays liquid drugs onto a child’s picture explaining: “This is the liquid spice and the normal kid’s drawings that would be sent in everyday into any prison.
"When it’s dry it doesn’t smell, when it’s X-rayed it doesn’t come up, this sheet is worth about £50.
"It’s new to the market, just fold it up and put it in your envelope, send it with the normal mail and when they receive it the other end all they’ll do is break off pieces, roll it up, put it in their tobacco and smoke it.”
The shocking footage also shows the deadly affect of the drug when 24-year-old convict Simeon’s heart stops after he inhales half a gram of former legal high Spice.
He is seen collapsing in mobile phone footage as inmates stand around laughing.
Watching the footage back, Simeon says: “My heart stopped, that’s when they pronounced me dead. I still went back after I died. I went back and had a drug the next day.”
Tiny mobile phones are frequently smuggled into prison hidden inside Mars bars where they can be sold for up to £1,000 and kept secreted in convicts’ anuses.
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Paula – whose identity is being protected by Channel 4 - explains: “A stuffed Mars Bar, stuffed with a phone. You can buy these between £25, £26 and depending what jail, they’ll go from anything from £200 - £800 – I know for a fact someone got offered a £1,000 for one.
“It’s all plastic, it’s got the vibrate bit took out so there’s no metal for the metal detectors to go off.
“It’s small nice and neat to put away – up their bums.”
“Paula”. who is also seen hiding 30 grams of Spice in training shoes, adds that most phones are smuggled in Mars bars because they are always sold in prisons.
She said: “Mars bars are available in most of the visit halls. 75 per cent of prisoners have phones in jail.
"You take them in on your person in places you wouldn’t get searched, the front of your trousers, your bra.”
However, ‘Paula’ is later convicted, fined and tagged after being discovered by the authorities.
The film also exposes how criminals are using drones to fly drugs, phones and weapons into Pentonville and Wandsworth prisons.
Prison neighbour Nick tells the show: “We hear them pretty much every night.”
Another neighbour called Charlotte adds: “They tend to hover around for quite a while. You could see a bag hanging down from the bottom.”
Disturbing footage also sees drug debts being settled with violence, while lags are also filmed trying to throw a two-seater settee through a window.
Many prisoners complain of the quality of life in jail, revealing depression and suicide are rife.
— The Secret Life Of Prisons: Cutting Edge airs on C4 tonight at 10pm.