HMP Manchester has recently been slammed in a damning report by the chief inspector of prisons
Inmates released from rat-infested Strangeways prison - slammed by the government's watchdog last week - have described shocking conditions inside the jail, claiming drugs were 'rife' and drones deliver 'anything you can think of' to inmates.
Now, two recently released prisons have described their experience inside Strangeways, formally HMP Manchester, and detailed the scale of the supply of drugs inside alongside how unsafe they felt behind bars.Karl Wilson, 29, who told the Manchester Evening News he was out after serving a 32 month sentence for burglary, said he had been 'in and out of jail' since he was a teenager but said HMP Manchester was the worst prison he had ever experienced. "It's a dive," he said.
Karl said he 'never felt safe' inside HMP Manchester and he was pleased when he was told last month he was being freed under the early release scheme last month to ease prison overcrowding. Following publication of Mr Taylors's urgent improvement notice, the Ministry of Justice insisted work had already begun to address his concerns, including more training for staff and improved security. It will publish its full action plan within a month.
More than half the inmates at the high security category A jail - which can house more than 700 men - reported they felt unsafe. Staff morale was 'low', Mr Taylor wrote. 'We will publish an action plan' The M.E.N. put the released prisoners' allegations to the MoJ, which pointed to a statement released last week by Minister for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending, Lord Timpson, who admitted the state of the prison system was 'shocking', but stressed new Labour government had 'inherited' the mess from the previous Conservative regimes.
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