Tennis ball filled with narcotics and the smallest models of mobile phones are being thrown over the walls of Swedens prisons. This is the latest way for inmates to smuggle ever increasing quantities of drugs into jail.

Despite half of all inmates being drug abusers, very little of the drugs smuggled in are seized.

The drugs problem is on its way to overpowering the Swedish Prisons authority.

In Haga, part of the Hall institute, nine out of ten prisoners are drug abusers. In the Hallby Institute outside Eskilstuna it is estimated that sefven out of ten abuse narcotics.

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