A video circulating on TikTok shows how it is inside a jail cell in HMP Wandsworth as watchdog has called for it to be put into emergency measures amid concerns over failings in security and other problems.
Do you work inside Britain's prison service or have information about prison failings? Contact [email protected] the imposing Victorian gatehouse that marks the entrance to Wandsworth Prison, more than 1,500 men spent up to 22 hours a day in squalid, cramped, rat-infested cells - with many high on drugs and in a state of hopelessness and despair.
And despite the alleged escape of terror suspect Daniel Khalife last year, he said security remained a 'serious concern', with staff on the 'chaotic' wings frequently unable to accurately account for the whereabouts of their prisoners. He said staff are hampered by a lack of experience, poor management and a 'poor or non-existence relationship' with prisoners.
Becker, who was later moved to Huntercombe prison in Oxfordshire, said being a famous tennis player meant nothing in a place where he was surrounded by 'murderers, by drug dealers, by rapists, by people smugglers, by dangerous criminals'. Wandsworth hit the headlines last year with the alleged escape of 22-year-old terror suspect Daniel Khalife
Read More Inside our failing jails: Former prison governor IAN ACHESON reveals a system gripped by violence, rampant drug taking and radicalisation - while woke bosses take the knee rather than tackle the chaos Mr Taylor said it was 'unfathomable' that security had not improved since the incident in September 2023.
'The prison has descended even further since Charlie Taylor's report two years ago - and that's even after the escape of someone who was considered a threat to national security.
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