we asked for an interview with the justice secretary, david liddington, to discuss the situation in ouratement the minister said his top priority was improving safety and security in our prisons, and today's figures reinforced how crucial it was that progress was made as quickly as possible. as a serving prison officer, sarah does not want to be identified. earlier this year she spoke to us about the job. i go into work feeling anxious. tensions are high, prisoners are angry and frustrated. when you open angry and frustrated. when you open a door you do not know what you will be faced with. i have had everything from urine, faeces, televisions thrown at me. ministers say that extra staff will make the difference. but every new report seems to underline the perilous state of our prisons. lots more is always on our website. iamon lots more is always on our website. i am on social media. now it is time for all of the sports news in sport today. hello, this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme: england qualify for the women's euro 2017 quarter—finals w

david liddington said the number of prison officers was being increased following cuts under the coalitionnt dominic casciani. london's pentonville prison late last year. orders from inmates for drugs and mobile phones being delivered by gangs on the outside, packages thrown or catapulted over walls and security netting, prisoners using makeshift hooks to recover them. it is big business. new figures from the ministry ofjustice show the industrial scale of what is going on. 225 kilograms of drugs seized, 13,000 mobile phones, 7,000 extra sim cards, large—scale prison smuggling has become a fact of life. i'll tell you what, in some prisons, it is easier to get drugs and phones than it was for me to get funded to do education. how about that? people are stuck in a cell, 23 hours a day, they want escape. look, people in society go to the pub for escape, you've got drug addicts in society, so to suggest it will not happen in prison is ridiculous. prison inspectors say that drugs fuel violence inside and phones help arrange crimes back in the community. labour says deep cuts are to blame. minis

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david liddington said the government was increasing the number of prison officers following cuts underespondent dominic casciani. london's pentonville prison late last year. orders from inmates for drugs and mobile phones being delivered by gangs on the outside. packages thrown or catapulted over walls and security netting. prisoners use makeshift hooks to recover them. it is big business. new figures from the ministry ofjustice show the industrial scale of what's happening. 225 kilograms of drugs seized last year, 13,000 mobile phones, 7000 extra sim cards. prison inspectors have repeatedly criticised jails for failing to stop the smuggling, which adds to violence inside. what i am determined to do is try to bring about improvements, to build on what my predecessor liz truss did in getting extra prison officers and putting in place effective measures to detect more accurately the problem we have with drugs, the new challenge we have with drones and mobile phones in prison, so they are more secure places. each jail in england and wales now has hand—held mobile phone detectors, and ther

david liddington said the government was increasing the number of prison officers following cuts undert. here's our home affairs correspondent dominic casciani. london's pentonville prison late last year. orders from inmates for drugs and mobile phones being delivered by gangs on the outside. packages thrown or catapulted over walls and security netting. prisoners use makeshift hooks to recover them. it is big business. new figures from the ministry ofjustice show the industrial scale of what's happening. 225 kilograms of drugs seized last year, 13,000 mobile phones, 7000 extra sim cards. large—scale prison smuggling has become a fact of life. in some prisons it was easier to get drugs and phones than it was to get funding to do education. how about that? people stuck in a cell for 2h hours a day, they want escapism. people in society go to the pub to escape. we have drug addicts in society. to suggest it is not going to happen in prison is ridiculous. prison inspectors say phones enable crimes. labour say that deep cuts are to blame. ministers have pledged extra officers by the end of

david liddington said the number of prison officers was being increased following cuts under the coalitionrs correspondent dominic casciani. london's pentonville prison late last year. orders from inmates for drugs and mobile phones being delivered by gangs on the outside, packages thrown or catapulted over walls and security netting, prisoners using makeshift hooks to recover them. it is big business. new figures from the ministry ofjustice show the industrial scale of what is going on. 225 kilograms of drugs seized, 13,000 mobile phones, 7000 extra sim cards, large—scale prisons smuggling has become a fact of life. i'll tell you what, in some prisons, it is easier to get drugs and phones than it was for me to get funded to do education. how about that? people are stuck in a cell, 23 hours a day, they want escape. look, people in society go to the pub for escape, you've got drug addicts in society, so to suggest it will not happen in prison is ridiculous. prison inspectors say that drugs fuel violence inside and phones help arrange crimes back in the community. labour says deep cuts are t

we asked for an interview with the justice secretary david liddington to discuss the situation in ourjailsroving safety and security in our prisons and the figures today reinforced how crucial it was that progress was made as quickly as possible. as a serving prison officer, sarah does not want to be identified. but earlier this year she spoke to us about thejob. i go into work feeling anxious. tensions are high. prisoners are angry and frustrated. when you open a door, you don't know what you will be faced with. i have had everything from urine, faeces, televisions thrown at me. ministers say that planned extra staff will eventually make a difference. but, at present, every new set of figures or report seems to underline the perilous state of our prisons. june kelly, bbc news. the head of the us military says there will be no change to its policy on allowing transgender people to serve until it's instructed by the president. that's despite donald trump tweeting that transgender troops will be banned from service. 0ur north america editorjon sopel is outside the white house. jon, this is o

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