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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


HMP Wandsworth was facing 10 assaults on staff every week amid “inhumane” conditions in the year leading up to the alleged escape of a suspected terrorist, a damning report has uncovered.

The prison’s independent monitoring board said the shortage of staff and resources made it “very difficult” to operate a “fully effective security regime” in the year to 1 June.

The findings, in the board’s annual report, came after the former soldier Daniel Khalife pleaded not guilty to escaping from the prison in September, where he was on remand after being charged with terrorism offences.

The report concluded: “The shortage of resources – human, financial and physical – made it very difficult to operate a fully effective security regime.

He had been in Wandsworth prison awaiting trial after allegedly planting a fake bomb at an RAF base and gathering information that might be useful to terrorists or enemies of the UK.

Charlie Taylor, the chief inspector of prisons, last month identified Wandsworth as one of 14 Victorian-era inner-city jails that should be closed.


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