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http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/topstories/display.var.2288437.0.the_fight_against_drugs_in_prison.php The Northern Echo "The fight against drugs in prison" 22 May 2008 <snip> "Yet help is on hand, as Holme House is one of only five prisons in the country to run a 12-month drug rehabilitation programme. The Therapeutic Community course provides inmates with a chance to live a life free of drugs. One of the prisoners, who is serving a lengthy sentence for robbery and firearms offences, admitted that he would always be a drug addict but that the programme has given him a chance. He said: "There are drugs in jail, let's not lie about it, but there are people who genuinely want to stop taking drugs and I am a different person to who I was."