Skip to main content
Work with the NEU
Inspectors call for emergency measures at ‘fundamentally unsafe’ prison in Milton Keynes
General View of HMP Woodhill, Milton Keynes.

INSPECTORS have called for a high security prison to be placed in emergency measures after being condemned as “fundamentally unsafe.”

HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, was found to have the worst levels of violence, bullying, intimidation, drug taking, attacks on prison officers and staff “voting with their feet” and leaving.

The prison holds about 500 male offenders, with some being Category A, including notorious prisoner Charles Bronson.

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
Similar stories
HMP Dartmoor
Prison Reform / 7 January 2026
7 January 2026
A general view of HMP Pentonville, north London, August 2018
Prisons Crisis / 5 November 2025
5 November 2025
Justice / 22 April 2025
22 April 2025

AN “alarming” ingress of drugs at a prison led to the most inmate deaths in Wales and England last year, inspectors reveal today.

HMP Barlinnie in Glasgow, October 16, 2013
Britain / 8 April 2025
8 April 2025