'Hotline' for prisoners
A TELEPHONE system set up for prisoners to report fellow inmates for smuggling drugs, mobile phones, cigarettes and alcohol behind bars has resulted in 100 calls from Yorkshire jails in the first month.
The Crimestoppers scheme - operating at prisons including Doncaster Prison at Marshgate, Moorlands closed and open prisons in Hatfield, and Wakefield and New Hall Prisons in Wakefield - was set up to prevent banned items being smuggled ‘inside’.
All prisoners have been given a special personal identification number to get them straight through to the Crimestoppers hotline anonymously, without prison staff being able to listen in as they can to other calls inmates make.