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A sign at HMP Eastwood Park
INSPECTORS have condemned “appalling conditions” at a prison after finding acutely mentally ill women being held in cells with “scratch marks and blood stains on the walls.”
Chief Inspector of Prisons Charlie Taylor said the levels of distress witnessed among women in crisis at one wing in Eastwood Park were appalling, with one experienced inspector describing the conditions as the worst he had ever seen.
The damning report, published today, details the findings of an unannounced inspection of the prison in Gloucestershire in October last year.
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.
