This is how corrupt prison guards are smuggling drugs, mobile phones, weapons and other contraband inside the walls of Britain’s prison system – and how the government tried to cover it up.

Investigative Reporter Richard Holmes and Editor Heidi Blake at Buzzfeed News uncovered the sheer scale of corruption across British prisons, and the pressures that staff face to smuggle items for inmates, and the consequences if they don’t.

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