Strangeways prison guards were 'drunken bullies' who wore National Front badges, ex-inmates claim
A documentary has lifted the lid on a culture of boozing, violence and racism at Strangeways prison in the years before the infamous riot of 1990.
He described witnessing guards rubbing the face of one inmate, who had learning difficulties, into his own excrement, after he had soiled himself on dropping a tray of food onto the floor. "I can honestly say, hand on heart, I have never seen any brutality by prison officers. What I have seen is where inmates have attacked and assaulted prison officers and they've had to respond and restrain in the best way we can."
"I inherited a situation where this was just a normal part of life," the governor's successor Brendan O'Friel told the programme. The drinking culture gave some prison officers 'a chance to be what they were - bullies', said Eric Allison. The programme alleged some staff inside the prison were 'promoting' the far-right National Front, although this was said to be a minority. Some even wore National Front badges.
When he was first installed as Governor. Mr O'Friel said walked the landings, seeing cells designed for one housing three inmates, and he realised conditions were 'awful'.
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