to wonder how prisoners get hold of alcohol and balaclavas?

[twirlymum]

I know stuff gets smuggled in to prisons, but 40 bottles of alcohol, and balaclavas?
Yes, it's an open prison, but even so?

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they probably knit the balaclavas and hide them (like the shawshank redemption - kind of)

at baclava

The prison guards accept bribes and allow alcohol and drugs to enter the prisons.

It's not unusual for prisoner to make a nasty brew in the clink - using potato peelings and the like

is it verywrong for me to have just tried putting a sock over my head?

it didn't fit well btw.

Dh says orange juice and apple juice fermented behind the panels of the bath makes a pretty lethal brew. (he used to do prison visiting - NOT an inmate!)

I used to work in a prison. They make a really nasty brew from fruit/veg and fruit juice which they hide in all kinds of imaginative places, usually behind wall panels etc etc. It stinks and officers are always on hunt for the stuff to remove.

They make weapons from toothbrushes etc so balaclavas easy enough to imagine. Prisoners have a lot of time on their hands.

Also it's an open prison, so the prisoners come and go on work placements and such - they probably bought it from the local Co-op! Security should run checks when they come back in, but I expect a blind eye could be turned in some cases.

It's an open prison where the riots are happening, isn't it?

I heard a local resident on the radio earlier saying that prisoners regularly wandered across the fields behind their houses carrying bags of booze and drop them by the fence at the perimeter of the prison where it was collected somehow by inmates within the confines.

The resident said they'd called and told the prison this (and it's been going on for years, apparently) but the prison either didn't have the resources to act or they didn't care much.

no. this is laydees sock and my moonhead laydees head.

my sistre has a pinhead. and thin hair too . (sibling rivalry at it's best) she'd fit in a sock.

I've been into Ford prison, I was a prison officer for 18 years, believe me its not difficult to get alcohol in there!!

Quite a lot of them go out to work daily, there is a shop up the road, there is only a fence to stop them leaving, so it gets thrown or passed over!! The prison officer are overworked and the resources are crap!

They won't have real balaclava, it will be a homemade one, but just as effective!

Nothing will happen to those that have rioted, it used to be 10 years for mutiny, fat chance of that now!

Best thing I ever did was to resign, I don't miss it one bit.

just arrange tented villages for them - see how they like that !!!