Middle classes ‘are aiding drug barons’

The middle classes “who live in leafy suburbs” must refrain from recreational drug use in order to curtail the power of drug barons and the spread of narcotics in jails.

That was the warning yesterday from the inspector of prisons, Judge Michael Reilly.

Since he took up his role in Jan 2008, Judge Reilly said he had never encountered one person whose life had been improved by prison.