We in Britain run institutions where narcotic use is rife.

Drugs is a massive trade. If you have drugs, effectively you have money.

Drugs is majorly influential. It's the most influential resource that people have inside there.

And where violence is taken for granted.

If you're a gangster or you're involved in a sort of street culture, one way or another,

you're going to normally end up in prison and you're going to obviously meet with people that you

don't have a good report with. So in that instance there, you have loads of gang violence. It just happens,

really. And it's happening more. Step with me into the briefing room to discover why we're losing

control of our prisons.

I'll be briefed by a group of experts who have experience of prison or knowledge of prison policy.

But first, listen to Charles, recently released from a category B prison who I spoke to earlier.

Immediately after you're sentenced, you'd be cuffed and taken downstairs to like a holding dock.

From there, you're transported to the prison alongside other prisons on the bus.

And there you're taking to a sort of induction wing.

Anyone who's coming into that prison will all be held in like a reception area.

And then after that

you join the wing the following day and then what what i mean you know okay so that's where the

movies become that little bit real so you do walk into a really kind of cold empty sort of environment

that's what you call the wing you got cells to either your sides and it's maybe got four floors or something of that sort of there and That's what you call the wing. You've got cells to either your sides

and it's maybe got four floors or something of that sort of there and metal railings and so

and so forth and it's like it's really manic. Because when you first arrive there, sometimes

you might come during something called association. That's when everyone's out and about doing

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