Updated 10:29am 18 May 2012

Hand gel banned from a prison after inmates use it to get high

Hand gel was banned from a prison after inmates got high and started a fight.

Inmates at HMP The Verne on the Isle of Portland in Dorset were drinking the gel for its alcohol content after it was put on a wing to stop the spread of swine flu.

Peter McParlin, area representative for the Prison Officers Association (POA), said they were making "hooch" from the gel.

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