Riot squads had to intervene at two prisons final weekend when a prisoner took a hostage in Whitemoor and inmates set up barricades in GarthStaffing cuts are to blame for disturbances in two separate prisons final weekend,the prison officers union has said. It warned of hidden costs to the cuts, saying that they were leading to some prisoners going unsupervised.
Prison riot squads had to storm a cell at the tall-security Whitemoor prison in Cambridgeshire final weekend when a prisoner took a hostage. Negotiators failed to persuade the hostage-taker, or who had flooded the cell and started fires,to end the siege, which lasted nine hours.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com