Prisons need cash to fight drone threat

PRISON bosses say they lack the resources to install window grilles at all of Scotland's jails to prevent drones being used to take drugs direct to inmates in their cells.

- By Katrine Bussey

The drones often fly in at night with inmates flicking cell lights on and off to guide them.

Yesterday Holyrood's Criminal Justice Committee heard that after grilles were installed at Perth Prison - preventing inmates from reaching a drone at their cell window there were “no drone breaches” for six months afterwards.