By Alan Travis
The Guardian
WEST MIDLANDS — Prisoners claim it is easier to get hold of illicit drugs than a bar of soap inside Britain’s largest prison, G4S’s flagship Oakwood jail near Wolverhampton, according to official inspectors.
The chief inspector of prisons has confirmed that drug use at the 1,600-place privately run “supersized” jail, which opened in April last year, is more than twice the rate of similar jails while inmates find it difficult to get hold of clean prison clothing, basic toiletries and cleaning materials.
One in seven inmates report having developed a drug problem while they have been inside Oakwood.
Full story: Prisoners at privately run Oakwood jail ‘can get drugs but not soap’