DRUGS worth £100MILLION are smuggled into jails each year and Government efforts to tackle the problem are failing, a report warned last night.

Huseyin Djemil, an ex-addict who once worked for the Prison Service, claimed there are more drugs in Britains jails than ever before.

And he said the Government is more interested in managing the problem than eradicating it.

Mr Djemil, former head of drug treatment at the National Offender Management Service, said: Drugs are widespread. It is undermining any attempt to clean up prisoners and increasing the chances of corrupting staff.

He said treatment is not focused on stopping addiction.

The Government estimates more than half of prisoners are users more than 40,000 inmates