DRUGS are being smuggled into Edinburgh's Saughton Prison hidden behind postage stamps and inside felt-tip pens, it was revealed today.
The increasingly inventive ways inmates use to obtain drugs on the inside were shown in documents obtained by the Evening News using freedom of information laws.
They also described drugs being sewn into jeans and jogging bottom waistbands and eve
n in the labels of clothing such as boxer shorts.
The documents reveal that a soaring amount of drugs, mobile phones and weapons have been found in the Edinburgh prison this year. On average, around five batches of drugs, three mobile phones and one weapon have been confiscated every week for the past two months.
LSD and SIM cards were found behind stamps on letters to inmates. In cells, wardens discovered mobile phones hidden in light fittings, and drugs, weapons and mobiles hanging from string out of the window.
Since January this year, cell finds include spears made out of mop handles and hooks; 215 packets of tobacco in just two cells; a stash of counterfeit DVDs including a porn collection; a knife made out of a razor blade and a brush; and an inhaler converted into a crack pipe.
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