A PRISON has been dubbed an airport because it is swarmed by so many drug-delivery drones.
They can be flown directly into more than a dozen cells after lags used kettle heating elements to burn holes in perspex windows.
Other inmates stole mops and brooms to hook packages dangled from drones hovering outside.
Almost two thirds of cons at Category B Garth prison, in Leyland, Lancs, reckoned getting hold of drugs was easy.
One said: “This is now an airport!”
A report from HM Inspectorate of Prisons said the smell of cannabis was rife whey they visited the jail unannounced on July 29.
It warned a resulting “breakdown in safety” had seen a 45 per cent rise in violence.
It found 17 of the 816 lags were refusing to leave cells — seven for more than seven months — with many needing protection over drug-related debt.
There were also high sickness levels and low morale among jail staff.
The Ministry of Justice said: “The new Government inherited a prison system in crisis.”
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