Swaggering lags posed for brazen snaps of themselves showcasing a banquet of takeaway foods that hard-up families would struggle to afford outside prison.
The pictures, which were shot on a contraband mobile phone, show the group of prisoners showing off with the smuggled food.
The inmates also snapped pictures banned alcohol, drugs and a range of takeaway feasts inside the jail.
In a one video of lags preparing chicken and lamb cuts, a masked member of the gang gloats for the camera: ‘Listen lads, when you make it down here this is the grub you’ll be having.’
Other images show prisoners posing with takeaway meals that have been smuggled behind prison walls, including from KFC-style chain Chicken Cottage
And after the feast there were two bottles of vodka to wash it down, as well as bags of what appears to be cannabis and on the ‘karaoke night’.
The images will pile on pressure to Britain’s beleaguered prison system — which costs the taxpayer at least £40,000 per prisoner every year.
It comes amid growing concerns over overcrowding, violence, staffing numbers and drug use behind bars.
Victims’ rights campaigner, Harry Fletcher, was furious when he saw the shameful images.
‘This will appear completely wrong to victims of all crime’, he told The Sunday Mirror.
An outraged source who was sent the image told the newspaper: ‘These pictures look more like something from a students’ union than a prison. It really is holiday camp stuff. What’s worse is some prison staff are so hard up they can barely afford to take their families for a Nando’s.
‘So it is particularly galling to see these criminals enjoying a slap-up dinner. They are clearly better off than many people outside. And you have to ask how they got the money to buy all this stuff.’
A brazen lag shows off two large Pizza Hut pizzas. Other members of the gang fried up chicken and cuts of lamb for the ‘karaoke night’, which also including lashings of vodka to follow as well as what seemed to be bags of cannabis
A main meal with two sides at Nando’s costs £10.70, while takeaways can be picked up from restaurants or ordered out for delivery through the app Deliveroo.
It comes after footage emerged last year of convicted robber and arsonist Dominic Usher eating McDonald’s cheeseburgers in prison.
Another clip shows him rejecting a prison curry before showcasing his burgers, and a third shows him snorting white powder inside the jail.
Other footage shows lags partying, singing and seemingly smoking drugs using an asthma inhaler as a home-made pipe.
It was reported that the simplest method of prisoners to smuggle in drugs is by bribing of threatening staff.
Synthetic cannabis, known as Spice, also plagues with prison system, with dozens of videos regularly shared on social media showing ‘zombie’ prisoners writhing around their cells
A source told the BBC in March that there was a working assumption suggesting that three to five staff in every jail were corrupt — equating to around 600 across England and Wales, with the total number of workers being 33,000.
Synthetic cannabis, known as Spice, also plagues with prison system, with dozens of videos regularly shared on social media showing ‘zombie’ prisoners writhing around their cells.
Other harrowing clips show vicious assaults and beatings unfolding without a staff member in sight.
The growing problem has led to calls for airport-style to be introduced at jails throughout the UK.
In this footage, one inmate sits next to him and screams as he beings to deteriorate rapidly before telling viewers not to do drugs
Peter Clarke, the Chief Inspector of Prisons, told last month of how he is being inundated with complaints from prisoners.
One told him that ‘Spiceheads were out of control’ and making life ‘a nightmare’.
Mr Clarke wants all visitors and staff to be scanned on their way into facilities because some were already ‘virtually unmanageable’.
New methods of smuggling are also hampering efforts to clamp down on drugs behind bars, including the use of drones to drop packages over prison walls.
Last month, the Independent Monitoring Board for HMP Wandsworth – Britain’s largest prison – released a scathing report on security.
HMP Wandsworth: Staff shortages also prevented education and training from taking place, which is ‘vital to the process of rehabilitating prisoners’, the report said
It noted that sniffer dog searches were only conducted on only 10 out of 31 days in one month and there was a shortage of CCTV operators.
It added that a ‘severe shortage’ of warders affected ‘almost every aspect of prison life’.
Staff shortages also prevented education and training from taking place, which is ‘vital to the process of rehabilitating prisoners’.
A Prison Service spokesman said: ‘This behaviour is completely unacceptable.
‘Those who break prison rules will be punished and can face extra time behind bars.
‘We are taking decisive action to find and block mobile phones in prison, including a £2million investment to block mobile phone signals.’