A man claiming to be an inmate at Sydney's Parklea Correctional Centre has labelled the prison a "dead-set joke" in a video showing him wielding a knife and a substance he claims is the drug ice.
Corrective Services officials are investigating a "very serious breach of security" after the video, shot on a phone by a man claiming to be inside the jail, was published in June.
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Prisoner uploads video from Sydney jail cell
An investigation is underway after an inmate at the Parklea Correctional Centre, in Sydney's north-west, uploaded a video to YouTube showing him in possession of a knife and the drug ice.
From behind the lens, the inmate shows a knife to the camera along with an improvised weapon dubbed a "slasher". He claims he is filming on a phone smuggled in by guards.
"This place is a dead-set joke. Right now in my cell I have a mobile phone. Why have I got a mobile phone? It's because screws bring mobile phones into jail for money," the man says.
Investigations were continuing but searches carried out on Saturday had already uncovered four mobile phones, steroid tablets and several other contraband items, a Corrective Services NSW spokeswoman said on Sunday.
Meetings would be held between Corrective Services and private operator GEO Group on Monday to discuss security and safety concerns, she said.
"Inmates go to extraordinary lengths to introduce contraband ... Any suggestions that contraband is introduced by staff are immediately investigated," she said.
In the video the man uses the "slasher" to cut the wall of his cell as an example of "what it can do to your throat" and says the jail is ruining lives.
"It is killing the young people, the young generation of this place is dead set terrorising," he said.
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