November 12, 2006
Inmates send Happy Slap videos to cons in other jails
Happy slap attacks are being filmed inside prisons and sent to cons in other jails, reports UK's Sunday Mirror.
"One sickening video shows a terrified inmate with blows raining down on his head and being kicked.
The clip was then sent to at least 10 other jails, including top security prisons Belmarsh, Woodhill and Manchester - which house terrorists, murderers and rapists.
A prison source said: "We couldn't believe that a phone was being used for happy slap attacks. It's bad enough phones can be smuggled in, but for them then to be used for sick recordings of beatings is shocking.
"It shows we're losing the battle to stop phones getting into prisons. They could be used to organise crime or plan an escape."
On the same phone, found in Swaleside prison, Sheppey, Kent, was a picture of a grinning inmate with a tray holding 12 mobiles. "
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