A member of the Prison Officers Association has revealed that inmates enjoy their jail time so much that if an escaping opportunity came up; they would rather ignore it.
Glyn Travis is a member of the association and explained how a drug dealer regularly used a ladder to enter cell windows at a Yorkshire prison, but none of the inmates used the ladder as a means of escape.
Shockingly, Travis also revealed the reasons why inmates are happy to stay in jail is because they have access to drugs, mobile phones and even sex.
The Prison Service has denied that any inmates ever possessed the opportunity to escape.
Mr Travis said on BBC that “We’ve got a serious crisis in our prisons today.
“Drugs are coming into our prisons at a rate that’s so dramatic that drugs in prison are actually cheaper than on the outside.”
The Prison Service clearly has a real problem on their hands at the moment. Although the Prison Service did not deny the incident happened, they have denied that any of the prisoners would have had an opportunity to escape. Hardly the point really is it.
The prison crisis is bad enough, but together with the media’s onslaught and the public’s lack of faith in the prison system; there is certainly more than one thing to consider.
Media Mentor is here to help a crisis such as this. We provide crisis management and advice on how to rebuild your company’s reputation. Public Relations departments within the Prison Service should be seriously considering how they can restore the public’s faith in the system.
After all, if people believe prisoners have the opportunity to escape, regardless of if they actually want to, there could be serious UK-wide panic.
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