Shocking documentary shows how tiny mobile phones are smuggled into prisons inside MARS BARS
Channel 4’s The Secret Life of Prisons also details how drugs are flown in by drones, concealed in trainers or sprayed onto children’s drawings
TINY mobile phones are being smuggled to prisoners hidden inside Mars Bars, a chilling new documentary has revealed.
Channel 4’s The Secret Life of Prisons also details how drugs are flown in by drones, concealed in trainers or sprayed onto children’s drawings.
The eye-opening programme, which has been filmed by inmates on contraband devices, also shows that violence behind bars is rife and the guards are terrified.
A woman on the outside who goes by the username ‘PrincessStar’ says she has made a career out of getting prisoners illegal goods.
She takes order from inmates over the phone and can do up to 10 prison visits a week.
In the show, the woman is seen receiving a text message which reads “Can you get subutex [a heroin substitute]? I need a visitor to bring through a rigid Mars Bar.”
She explains this means a Mars Bar stuffed with a phone.
She said: “You can buy these for between £25, £26 and in the prisons depending what jail they’ll go from anything from £200 to £800 – I know for a fact someone got offered £1,000 for one.
“It’s all plastic it’s got the vibrate bit took out so there’s no metal for the metal detectors to go off.
“It’s small nice and neat to put away – up their bums. I’m a pro I can probably do 20 in ten minutes.”
‘PrincessStar’ has smuggled phones, cannabis, crack cocaine, heroin and more into prisons – and she’s never been caught.
She says that former legal high spice, a cannabis substitute, is the most popular drug in prisons because it doesn’t show up in drug tests.
She smuggles it into prisons by spraying a liquid form of it on to children’s paintings.
When it’s dry it does not smell and inmates who receive it in the post break off pieces, roll it up and put it in with their tobacco to smoke it.
Two inmates can be seen boasting: “We are in prison, locked down. This is subutext and is widely available.”
“This is spice, a legal high, widely available in every other cell on every landing.”
Later, an inmate in his prison cell admits: “Conditions have gone downhill in the last six months, staff shortages, high drug taking – no one feels safe.”
Meanwhile, we revealed earlier this week some of the bizarre ways prisoners have managed to escape jail.
These include just walking out and scaring guards after fashioning a ‘gun’ made of soap.
The Secret Life of Prisons airs on Thursday at 9pm