london's pentonville prison late last year. 0rders 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 net income of prisoners use makeshift hooks to recover them. it is big business. new figures from the ministry ofjustice show the industrial scale of what happening. 225 kilograms of drugs seized last year, 13,000 mobile phones, 7000 extra sim cards. prison inspectors have repeatedly criticised jailed for failing have repeatedly criticised jailed forfailing to stop have repeatedly criticised jailed for failing to stop the smuggling, which. what i am determined to do is 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 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 there are 30

london's pentonville prison late last year. 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. ministers have pledged an extra 2,500 officers by the end of next year, but there will still be fewer staff than seve

london's pentonville prison late last year. 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 next year, but there will still be fewer staff tha n year, but there will still be fewer staff than seven years ago. these ar

bristol, brixton, hindley, liverpool prison, pentonville, there we re liverpool prison, pentonville, there were 15 states in the last 12 months. that is up two on the year before. the number of prisoners who are released in error, this is where they are meant to be in custody, but there is some administrative mistake, and they are actually let out. there we re they are actually let out. there were 71, and that is the highest numberfor at were 71, and that is the highest number for at least a decade. thank you for coming down and updating us. that is our home affairs correspondent danny shaw. it's 50 years today since homosexuality was partially decriminalised in england and wales. but how much have attitudes to homosexuality changed ? to find out, gay online news site pink news commissioned a yougov poll. it suggests four in ten people think gay sex is not natural, and half believe primary school children should not be taught about gay relationships in school. now we can speak to benjamin cohen, ceo of pink news, tony fenwick from schools 0ut, which provides resources to primary scho

london's pentonville prison late last year. 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 to blame. ministers have pledged an extra 2,500 officers. by the end of next year but there will still be fewer s

and caledonian road is closed near pentonville prison. as we had through today. we begin on a fairly cloudy night to make note with our brea ks cloudy night to make note with our breaks of rain but they should be few and far between through the morning and they should even be brea ks to morning and they should even be breaks to give us the odd glimpse of brightness. but that cloud will be building as we had through the day and by this afternoon we will see the rain become more persistent. temperatures reaching 20, 20 two degrees. it is likely to affect play at wimbledon today that the bulk of the rain will be coming through the night. it could be heavy locally as well. temperatures reaching 14 celsius. it is still with us tomorrow morning but only very first thing as it clears early on and the cloud melts away through the morning, leaving us with a largely dry and bright day. which is reaching 22 celsius, a great deal of sunshine but feeling fresh and co mforta ble sunshine but feeling fresh and comfortable as well. on thursday there will