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Life Behind Bars

A reporter goes undercover as a prison officer for five months at Rye Hill high security prison, and discovers a world of bribery, corruption and drugs.

Investigation into Britain's private high security prisons. A reporter goes undercover for five months at HMP Rye Hill in Warwickshire, qualifying as a prison officer. He discovers a world where officers fear for their lives, where prisoners run drug empires from their cells on smuggled mobile phones and officers are openly offered huge sums by inmates to traffick drugs into the prison.

40 minutes

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Tue 24 Apr 2007 01:10

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