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UK: Prison Service bugs cells

01 September 1996

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The Prison Service has admitted to bugging prisoners cells and "wiring up" inmates in order to overhear confessions to crimes or information implicating others. The bugging came to light after prison officers at Strangeways prison wrote to their union requesting legal guidance on their position regarding their surveillance activities. A Prison Service spokeswoman later acknowledged that electronic eavesdropping had taken place but claimed that it was only rarely used and always at the request of a senior police officer. Guardian 15.10.96.

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