Who is guarding these people? In the case of Douglas Havard, the answer is nobody. Havard, 27, an inmate of Ranby Prison, near Retford, Notts, is serving six years for stealing up to £6.5 million using forged credit cards over the internet. He was approached after prison governors wanted to create an internal TV station but needed a special computer program written.
Havard was left unguarded and hacked into the system's hard drive, then set up a series of passwords so no one else could get into the system. He was put in segregation as punishment, but he left the system crippled. A prison source said, "It's unbelievable that a criminal convicted of cyber-crime was allowed uncontrolled access to the hard drive. He set up such an elaborate array of passwords it took a specialist company to get it working."
A Prison Service spokesperson said the breach was being investigated, adding, "Prisoners are not allowed unsupervised access to computers. The prisoner was not able to access records of any other prisoners."
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