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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- September 25, 2009
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Inmates get buzzed
from hand sanitizer
LONDON - A British prison says a bunch of inmates have been
caught with their hands clean - using hand sanitizing gel to get
drunk.
Peter McParlin of the Prison Officers Association says inmates
were using it to make illicit alcohol.
The gel had been distributed around the prison to stop the spread
of the swine flu virus. McParlin said on Thursday that giving
inmates access to a gel with an alcohol content was unwise.
The prison has now banned inmates from using it. McParlin said
the use of illicit concoctions made by mixing alcohol with fruit,
water and sugar was as bad as drug use - or worse.
The claims of prison boozing follow reports of ...