Wednesday April 7, 2021, 5:47 AM
HMP La Moye is one of the few prisons in the British Isles not to have any Covid-19 cases Credit: ITV Channel TV
Just over 12 months ago when Jersey entered lockdown, life at HMP La Moye changed.
All staff and prisoners were required to wear face masks and physical visits from friends and family of inmates stopped.
Like elsewhere in the community the pandemic forced the prison community to adapt.
Visits and medical appointments moved to video calls and the daily schedule changed to allow for smaller groups of inmates to alternate between work and recreation.
It's affected staff quite drastically and it's only through the hard work of the staff, their flexibility, their pro-active approach to it that we've been able to fulfill and maintain the regime.
Ian Martyn Le Gallais has been sentenced at Jersey's Royal Court. Credit: ITV Channel TV
A 53-year-old man in Jersey has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for possessing nearly 900 indecent images of children.
Ian Martyn Le Gallais pleaded guilty at the Royal Court to three offences of making indecent images of children under 16, including 78 videos.
The court heard police carried out a warrant at Le Gallais' address in December 2019.
Officers found a total of 526 indecent images on his laptop and a further 367 on his phone.
A third of the images were in the most serious category, showing explicit sexual activity, and of those 56 were videos.