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PRISON officers told Justice Secretary Chris Grayling yesterday to “open his eyes” to Britain’s jails meltdown after inspectors unearthed rising violence and overcrowding at an understaffed Kent facility.
An unannounced visit at HMP Elmley on the Isle of Sheppey revealed how prisoners are caged in cramped cells for 23 hours at a day in a jail peppered with bird excrement.
Prison Officers Association (POA) general secretary Steve Gillan said the findings “mirror everything that this union has been saying.”
With the agitated debate now raging in the media about the early release schemes, Prison Officers Association general secretary STEVE GILLAN gives the view of those who work in the sector
Our members face serious violence, crumbling workplaces and exposure to dangerous drugs — it is outrageous we still cannot legally use our industrial muscle to fight back and defend ourselves, writes STEVE GILLAN