BBCA report on the death of a man in HMP Parc has raised Serios Conerns about the ease with which prisoners can obtain drugs.
It occurs after Lewis Petryszyn, 25, was found dead in his cell in April 2022 with illegal drugs and medications not described in his system.
The staff had suspended that he was selling drugs, and the disciplinary hearing slipped under his shortly before being found dead.
The report of the Defensor of the Prison People said that if the paperwork had been delivered in person, there could have been an opportunity to pay medical attention to Mr. Petryszyn.
He said that prison drug plan needs update, which Parc says that he has since reviewed.
The report occurs after an unnoticed inspection of HMP Parc in Bridgend in January revealed that he was struggling to address a alarm drug problem, which was linked to an increase in deaths, after 17 inmates died in 2024.
Of the deaths, G4S, who runs the prison, confirmed that eight inmates had died from natural causes, and believed that five were related to drugs.
Despite the prison claims to make “significant improvements”, drugs were found 900 times that year.
While the formal cause of Mr. Petryszyn’s death has not been confirmed, the tests showed that he had “spices” in his system, a drug -made drug that mimics the effects of cannabis and is illegal.
The prison staff had gathered intelligence suggestions that he was selling psychoactive drugs to other inmates, and a “debt list” believed to show those who owed money was in his cell.
Petryszyn was transferred to another unit a week later due to the concerns that it represented a threat to Ethers, and a drug test the day before his death confirmed that he had psychoactive substances in his system.
The Ombudsman’s report revealed that disciplinary audience documents slid under Mr. Petryszyn’s cell in approximately 45 minutes before being found dead.
This, said the Ombudsman, “meant that the staff lost a possible opportunity to provide emergency medical care to Mr. Petryszyn before.”
Kimberley Bingham, the interim prison and the defender of the people of probation, said there was an intelligence that Petryszyn was providing psychoactive substances in prison, but there was “little evidence” to suggest that it was their use.
She added: “While we are satisfied that the prison staff properly presented intelligence reports and acted on these by conducting cell searches and organizing that Mr. Petryszyn performs a drug test, we are concerned about the availability of P”. “
However, Petryszyn tested positive for a medication not described, wave, which “must have obtained illegally.”
Mrs. Bingham added that the report raised Conerns about drug access in Parc prison and requested an updated strategy to address illegal and misused prescription drugs.
He also said that prison should have created a formal plan to address accusations that Mr. Petryszyn was intimidating other inmates, adding that the staff could have had the opportunity to save their lives if clean procedures had been followed when delivification is delivering hefivering hefiveing.
“The officer who puts the disciplinary hearing document under Mr. Petryszyn’s cell should have been delivered in person.
“If I had done it, I could have noticed that Mr. Petryszy need medical assistance,” Bingham added.
In an action plan published with the report, the Parc prison said that since then he had reviewed his drug strategy to try to reduce drug availability within the prison.
He also said that it was provid training for staff on the supervision of drug use.
