Jail Break (In)!

Well, Britain has a problem prison it seems. The HMP Kirkham prison near Blackpool in Lancashire has lost quite a few inmates in the past few years. But the staff were surprised when they saw someone trying to break IN to the prison.

It boasts the unenviable record of being the prison with the highest number of escaped convicts.

So staff at HMP Kirkham were more than a little surprised when they spotted a man breaking into the jail.

The intruder scaled an 8ft wire fence to get into the prison and was cornered as he tried to clamber over the same fence to get back out.

Guards later discovered the man had hidden a stash of drinks, drugs and electronic goods in a prison wheelie bin for an inmate - thought to be his brother - to sell on to the other lags.

The haul included heroin, cannabis, steroid tablets, three litres of vodka, three bottles of Southern Comfort and Bacardi, 80 cigarettes, 18 DVDs, two mobile phones, top-up cards and phone-chargers.

An accomplice keeping watch outside the prison sped off in a car when the intruder was caught, but he was later stopped by police.

Ah, free enterprise. It's nice to see all that ambition, isn't it? Oh, by they way, if you were wondering about Kirkham's record on losing track of people, the article explains:

Kirkham, near Blackpool in Lancashire, can hold 628 prisoners and is England's biggest Category D jail for those on short-term sentences or nearing the end of longer terms.

A total of 778 inmates have absconded in the past five years, more than at any other prison in England and Wales.

The problem should be obvious. The prison capacity is 628 and they have lost 778. Of course prisoners have to break in - there's nobody left inside!