Undercover in a British prison: security flaws exposed | Times Investigation

An urgent investigation has begun into prison security after an undercover journalist, from The Times, was hired at one of the country’s most dangerous jails and was then able to walk inside and interact with prisoners without security searches.

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Last month a Times reporter was hired by an agency to work at HMP Bedford amid a nationwide staffing shortage.

On two out of eight days that he worked at the prison, there was no one manning the security scanners at the front entrance when he arrived for work. This allowed him and several others to walk inside the jail and through to prisoner wings without even the most basic searches.

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