INMATES at HMP Birmingham have asked if they could continue running the prison if they called themselves L4G.
Tom Booker, a prisoner with experience of running an international cocaine business, told the home secretary that he has twice as much business expertise as anyone at G4S and could deliver record profits.
He said: “We’ll form a board, incorporate, submit a bid that’s loads lower than anyone else’s and threaten to sue if you turn it down. We’ll even have a proper logo and everything, there’s a guy on D wing who did graphics before he got into arson.
“After that we can enforce our monopoly, treble drug prices, start manufacturing Es and getting the lads doing some contracting burglaries and car thefts outside. Bish bash bosh. Two million a year, easy.”
Home secretary Sajid Javid said: “We were going to take the prison off G4S, fix it and then give it them back as a punishment, but this sounds much better.
“After all, it would be criminal to let the prison remain in the public sector.”
