AS POLICE launched a huge new operation to stop the tidal wave of drugs being smuggled into jails, one inmate, George Cooper, walked out of HMP Forest Bank and described the task facing them.
George, 31, from Buxton, spoke to the Manchester Evening News moments after being released on Wednesday.
He said he had been released on licence after serving a 16-week sentence for breaching a restraining order.
Asked about conditions inside the jail, he said: "It's ****ing dire. They don't give a ****, the officers inside. They don't care."
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