A Christian prisoner at HMP Garth, an 800-capacity, category B jail in Lancashire, has complained that his fellow inmates are tearing up pages from the Bible to make cigarettes.
Inmates from the prison are allegedly using pages from the jail Bible as they are “thin and plentiful”.
A smoking ban was implemented in full force in the majority of prisons in the UK. It is said that 25g pouches of smuggled tobacco are selling 25 times the price they would sell on the outside. The 25g tobacco is allegedly sold for £150, while single roll-ups cost between £5 and £10.
The Christian inmate wrote in the latest edition of Inside Time, a prisoners' magazine. He wrote. “When did people think it was OK to tip the Bible up and effectively burn it? This is not OK. Just for the record, I would feel exactly the same way if it was a Koran or the Torah, or indeed any holy book.”
Another inmate wrote, “Now they have taken tobacco away, prisoners are making fags with Bible paper, tea bags and scraping nicotine off nicotine patches. So now, passive smoking is 100 times worse.
