Prison Governor Bill Millar fears that there are so many mobile phones in the prison that he cannot rule out staff bringing them in.
To make matters worse, criminals behind bars have become so adept at hiding the phones that a ‘BOSS chair’, worth thousands of pounds, has been brought in.
Prisoners suspected of concealing the phones internally now have to sit in the chair – a specialist piece of equipment used widely in UK prisons – which detects whether criminals are hiding a foreign body. The prisoner can then hand the phone over or can be put in segregation until the phone is recovered naturally.
