Prisoners are being allowed to use laptops to order meals from their cells, an inspection report has revealed.

Inmates at HMP Wayland can use the devices to select what they want to eat and also to submit orders to the jail shop.

They have also been given in-cell telephones to stay in touch with relatives.

The prisons watchdog detailed how the jail, a category C facility in Norfolk holding nearly 1,000 men including over 100 serving life sentences, had taken part in a "digitalisation project".

This included the introduction of in-cell "net books", which prisoners spoke positively about.

The report, from HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP), said: "These small laptop computers enabled them to take responsibility for day-to-day tasks such as submitting applications, selecting meal choices and ordering from the prison shop, without having access to the internet.

"Prisoners whose net book was removed for poor behaviour or who chose not to have one could access the same services using kiosks in communal wing areas."