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Prisons run as 'colleges of crime'
By BBC News
Published: 08/03/2006

ENGLAND - A leaked study suggests that at least 1,000 out of some 45,000 prison staff in England and Wales are corrupt.

Commentators have said the allegations of drug and mobile phone smuggling could impact on the work being done to help inmates. But the Prison Service believes the perceived problem has been overstated.

One former inmate Bob Croxton reckons officers made thousands of pounds from a steroid dealing operation he ran while in Liverpool prison over a nine-month period. Read more.

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