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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

Treat jailed drug dealers like radical extremists, says prisons watchdog

Head and shoulders of Charlie Taylor against wall
Charlie Taylor’s comments come amid concerns about how to break a cycle of violence caused by the large-scale smuggling of drugs into prisons. Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian

Jailed criminals who are flooding prisons with drugs should be isolated like radical extremists and “assertively managed”, the England and Wales prisons watchdog has said.

Charlie Taylor, HM inspector of prisons, said major dealers were living “consequence-free” in jail when they should be separated from the majority of inmates, subjected to regular searches for phones, and punished and rewarded according to their behaviour.

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