Daring escapes, the buzz of drug-smuggling drones and guards being filmed having sex – welcome to HMP Wandsworth.

HMP Wandsworth is trending once again after two prisoners were accidentally released from the category B jail within a week of each other.

Police in London and Surrey are looking for any trace of the accidentally freed flasher Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, and fraudster William ‘Billy’ Smith, 35.

But how did an affluent neighbourhood in Wandsworth become the home for high-profile criminals, and what blunders is the prison best known for?

Drugs like Spice are found to be ‘easily available’ by prison inspectors

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