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In a week when the Chief Inspector of Prisons published an Urgent Notification detailing the horrors of HMP Wandsworth, I found myself revisiting memories of being jailed there for the crime of fraud. Clanging doors, rattling chains, men screaming at night in anguish or despair or because their cellmate was assaulting them. No help coming.
The Ministry of Justice says extra staff have been deployed to the "rat-infested" prison.
Daniel Khalife £20,000 reward for information Richmond Park. As of Saturday morning he might be in Chiswick.
At HMP Woodhill levels of serious assault on staff are the highest in England and Wales and seven in 10 prisoners report feeling unsafe. Rates of self-harm are the highest in the adult male estate and chronic staff shortages are a serious problem.
Bristol remains one of the most unsafe prisons in the country: eight men had taken their own lives since the last inspection, and one had been charged with murdering his cell-mate. Despite this, emergency cell call bells often went unanswered by staff.