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Prison safety worse than ever before, says Parole Board
PRISON safety has hit a record low with no sign of an improvement in rates of violence and self-harm on the horizon, the Parole Board warned yesterday.
Board chairman Nick Hardwick said the latest jail safety figures were “appalling” and the “worst they have ever been.”
His damning assessment came just days after an inmate died in a stabbing at Pentonville prison in north London.
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