It is that logic that perhaps explains why there are now only 42,000 staff in the National Offender Management Service in england and wales, while there were 19,000 back in 2010. But the logic of cutting prisons has perhaps reached a limit. The pressure of fewer staff in overcrowded jails has seen violence rise towards staff, other prisoners or in the form of self harm. Bad things are happening in ourjails, and its no surprise the president of the Prison Governors Association has written an open letter attacking the governments management of prisons. Heres elaine dunkley. Violence and rioting, volatility has gripped prisons in england and wales. Run. The pressure in our Prison Service building for staff and inmates. Get down. A breakdown in Law And Order caused by a shortage of staff and a growing Prison Population. A toxic mix according to the Prison Governors Association. Attacks on prison staff and drugs academic increasing concern around Mental Health and overcrowding, resources an
What they used the hotel for. i walk odd the top of the stair s, and took the about three steps down the stairs, and there s a john stood there right at the side of the door. it was no exit from the hotel apart from down these stairs. you won t get out, and simple as tha that. we didn t sleep much that night at all. can we tell somebody. can we tell the police? but the trouble is that our phones didn t work. the hotel phones didn t work. we couldn t phone anybody.