Jail bosses have banned lags’ loved ones from sending them underwear because inmates were smoking their smalls to get high.

Villains were sending in pants soaked in mind-bending drug Spice.

The clothing was then torn into strips and smoked by crooks behind bars to release the mood-changing narcotic.

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In a bid to keep drugs out of HMP High Down in Surrey bosses have banned cons from receiving underwear gifts – even from their wives, girlfriends and mums.

Jail bosses launched a clampdown after discovering cons were getting high on their y-fronts.

Drugs were also getting into the nick in parcels disguised as property transfers to lags from other jails.

The prison’s Independent Monitoring Board said in an annual report: "We are advised that in the early part of the year the significant entry route for drugs, mobile phones and weapons was via the post, including fake rule 39 legal letters (privileged correspondence from legal representatives) and parcels disguised as inter-prison transfer parcels.

"Methods to disrupt the flow of illicit items into the establishment have included disallowing the sending in of underwear, photocopying all incoming mail and implementing an authorisation code system for rule 39 letters.

"We are told that, during the course of the year, the main methods of entry shifted to passes in visits, drones and throw-overs.

"People visiting prisoners are checked by the passive drugs dogs and the visit hall is monitored by CCTV.

"During the year 14 suspected attempts by visitors to pass items to prisoners have been intercepted, compared to only two in 2021.

"Instances of prisoners being under the influence of NPS/cannabis or hooch are recorded almost daily in the daily briefing and prisoners tell us that illicit substances are relatively easy to get hold of."

Though the boxer ban had been a success it had resulted in a rise in the in-jail production of illicit booze.

"It is also thought that as the availability of drugs has been reduced the amount of hooch being brewed has increased," the report added.

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