A jail bird’s dream: To be hauled in a British prison

Travis told a local radio station on Thursday that drug problem in prisons was now “out of control” and added that even prostitutes were sometimes smuggled in.

Citing the example of the Everthorpe Prison in east Yorkshire, Travis revealed that members of the public were using ladders to climb over the prison walls to smuggle drugs inside, yet none of the prisoners had tried to escape.

“They put up ladders to climb over the walls, but prisoners were so comfortable in the environment they were living in, none tried to climb up the ladders and escape,” he said.

Travis added, “When the ladders came down at night, the members of the public hid inside the prison until their colleagues come over the following morning, put the ladders back up and enabled them to get out. None of the prisoners inside tried to escape.”

“It tells me there’s something wrong in society when people are breaking into prisons to bring in drugs and prostitutes, but the prisoners are quite happy to stay inside,” Travis said.

Travis also told the radio station that drugs were coming into prisons at a large rate, making them cheaper on the inside than on the outside.

“The quantity of drugs in our prisons today is absolutely vast. Every prison in Britain is understaffed and overcrowded. The Government believes the only way forward is to reduce the cost of public prisons, making them less safe and less secure. Staff feel very vulnerable,” he said.