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A PRISON, which prepares men for release, has been condemned for its “decrepit conditions, rising violence, self-harm and widespread illicit drug use.”
Conditions at HMP Rochester in Kent are so bad that HM Prisons Inspectorate has issued a formal “urgent notification” to Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood calling for action.
The prison is the latest to be condemned after more than a decade of warnings from the Prison Officers’ Association and campaigners about worsening conditions in the prisons estate, including overcrowding, violence, drug abuse and staff shortages.
Despite Labour’s promises to bring things ‘in-house,’ the Justice Secretary has awarded notorious outsourcing outfit Mitie a £329 million contract to run a new prison — despite its track record of abuse and neglect in its migrant facilities, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
AN “alarming” ingress of drugs at a prison led to the most inmate deaths in Wales and England last year, inspectors reveal today.
