Drugs Smuggled Into Prison in Dead Rats as UK Authorities Struggle for Control

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Two people walk alongside the curtain wall of HMP Liverpool, northwest England, on Nov. 15, 2016. Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images

Drugs, telephones, and tobacco were smuggled into a British prison stuffed inside dead rats, according to media reports.

According to the prison service, it is the first time they have found drugs being smuggled this way into British prisons, which have struggled in recent years to cope with rising drug use and violence.