General view of a sign for HMP Winchester in Hampshire
WINCHESTER prison is falling apart amid “very high levels of violence” and needs urgent improvement, the prisons watchdog warned today.
Inspectors called for immediate emergency measures after finding that an inmate had been able to remove his own cell door.
Prisoners are being held in “dreadful conditions,” they said, with some cells “so damp and mouldy that inspectors questioned whether they were fit for habitation.”
The announcement of a Women’s Justice Board should be cautiously welcomed, writes SABINA PRICE, but we need to see a recognition that our prison system is in crisis and disproportionately punishes some of the most vulnerable people in society
AN “alarming” ingress of drugs at a prison led to the most inmate deaths in Wales and England last year, inspectors reveal today.
