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Head of Investigations at The Times and author of The Equal Parent. DMs are open or you can email: paul.morgan-bentley@the-times.co.uk 🏳️‍🌈✡️
Mar 27, 2024 8 tweets 2 min read
Last month I worked undercover at HMP Bedford, one of the most dangerous jails in the country.

I was hired by an agency without thorough checks - they didn’t even Google my name! - and then I was able to walk inside and interact with prisoners without security searches. On two out of eight days that I worked at the prison, there was no one manning the security scanners at the front entrance when I arrived for work.

This allowed me and several others to walk inside the jail and through to prisoner wings without even the most basic searches.
Feb 1, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
Last month I worked undercover with debt collectors breaking into homes of vulnerable families for British Gas

We were sent to force-fit prepayment meters at homes including one where a mum was with her 4 week old baby.

If families cannot top up, their heating can be cut off Others who've had these meters force-fit for British Gas in recent weeks include a woman described in job notes as having “severe mental health bipolar”, a woman "with mobility problems and is partially sighted” and a mother whose “daughter is disabled and has a hoist”