Without cages, drones fly in drugs and weapons. And there are other ways to make these buildings safer and more humane

I met Jake in prison. He was a lifer and I was an officer. By the time I began working with him, he’d already served 15 years. Unsurprisingly, his view of prison was different to mine. He saw things I didn’t.

“What do you think it looks like?” Jake asked me.

Alex South is a former prison officer and the author of the memoir Behind These Doors