United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 153903
Prisons: Mobile Phones
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27 February 2023
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6 March 2023 · Answer
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6 March 2023
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to tackle the rise of prisoners using mobile phones to record and upload videos to social media platforms.
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27 February 2023
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to tackle the rise of prisoners using mobile phones to record and upload videos to social media platforms.
Source: Commons
6 March 2023
Answer
Under national policy prisoners can only access the internet in a supervised environment, and only for rehabilitative purposes. Prisoners cannot access or interact with social media whilst in custody.We have a zero-tolerance approach to illicit mobile pho...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2023-02-27/153903
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1599606
- uk · wq-1599606 · source updated 6 March 2023