‘Little progress’ in stopping drug drones at HMP Manchester, watchdog says

Charlie Taylor said he found that drones were bringing ‘large quantities of drugs into the jail … leading to high levels of violence and instability’. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

The Prison Service has made “very little progress” in enforcing a formal demand to stop drones from delivering drugs into one of its worst performing jails, a watchdog has concluded.

Charlie Taylor, the chief inspector of prisons for England and Wales, said HMP Manchester remained in a “precarious state” after a failure to fix broken windows and install security to stop contraband being delivered to gangs.