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<p>Charlie Taylor, inspector of prisons for England and Wales, says dealers should be isolated and ‘assertively managed’</p><p>Jailed criminals who are flooding prisons with drugs should be isolated like radical extremists and “assertively managed”, the England and Wales prisons watchdog has said.</p><p>Charlie Taylor, HM inspector of prisons, said major dealers were living “consequence-free” in jail when they should be separated from the majority of inmates, subjected to regular searches for phones, and punished and rewarded according to their behaviour.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/apr/08/isolate-jailed-drug-dealers-charlie-taylor-inspector-prisons">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Charlie Taylor, inspector of prisons for England and Wales, says dealers should be isolated and ‘assertively managed’</p><p>Jailed criminals who are flooding prisons with drugs should be isolated like radical extremists and “assertively managed”, the England and Wales prisons watchdog has said.</p><p>Charlie Taylor, HM inspector of prisons, said major dealers were living “consequence-free” in jail when they should be separated from the majority of inmates, subjected to regular searches for phones, and punished and rewarded according to their behaviour.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/apr/08/isolate-jailed-drug-dealers-charlie-taylor-inspector-prisons">Continue reading...</a>