Inmates use alcoholic hand gel to make "hooch"

[undeterred]

Alcoholic hand gel removed from prison after inmates use it to make 'hooch'

Alcohol hand gel used to combat swine flu has been banned from a jail after inmates got drunk on the liquid soap. The hygiene gel dispensers were introduced on wings to prevent the spread of swine flu earlier this month. But within hours crafty inmates had started drinking the liquid soap, mixing it with fruit, sugar and water to make the alcoholic drink known as hooch.

There were reports that one prisoner was so intoxicated that he started a fist fight with another inmate at HMP The Verne, although this was denied by prison officials. Now the governor of the Category C jail on the Isle of Portland in Dorset has banned the detergent.

A source at the Verne claimed: 'The cleansers were put out on a wing to combat swine flu but as soon as they were put out, the prisoners started drinking the stuff straight out of them. 'There was a fight after one of the prisoners got violent after drinking the gel.' Andy Fear, a member of the Verne's Prison Officer's Association committee, said 'We were informed of an incident within hours of the gel being available.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1215865/Alcoholic-hand-gel-removed-prison-inmates-use-make-hooch.html

[virgogal]

1. Clever little devils.

[iris27]

2. Yeah...that'd be the reason rubbing alcohol is isopropyl alcohol and toxic

to drink. I've never understood why they use ethanol in Purell.

[applegrove]

7. Maybe they use ethanol on Purell because they don't want a toxic build up

of bad alcohol on your hands?

[undeterred]

3. Is this why * was always using hand sanitizer?

:shrug:

[Xicano]

4. Let this be an example to prison authorities on how to curtail prison violence, institute "POT"

breaks and I'll bet they'll be a reduction in prison violence.

n/t

[Berry Cool]

5. I bet none of 'em is having constipation issues right now. n/t

[Texasgal]

6. Good for them!!!

Drunks need love too! :P

[Canuckistanian]

8. You can make booze by adding alcohol to fruit and sugar?

I thought yeast was needed to make booze.