Wandsworth Prison issued urgent improvement notice after serious security failings found

HMP Wandsworth hit the headlines last year when an inmate escaped. But as this programme has since reported, the prison is plagued with problems, including rampant drug use, overcrowding, violence, self-harm and suicide. (Subscribe: bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)
Now, it's become the sixth prison in a year and a half to be issued with an Urgent Notification for improvement after inspectors found serious security failings, squalid conditions and prisoners in despair. Its governor resigned this week.
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[@JohnDoe-tx8lq]

"a high profile and embarrassing alleged escape"

[@BankOfWrexham]

Cannabis is not the problem mate.

[@titteryenot4524]

‘It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.’ (Nelson Mandela)

[@AbigailBrown-wk7xl]

Reform is needed in failing prisons

[@gaynortension2032]

Your freedom being taken from you is the punishment the courts hand down.

[@user-ih1uz4go5v]

Still 10x better than most prisons around the world.

[@misfit2022]

Never been inside this one but I know someone who has and he said it was ok. I only used it for parking before I found out that an industrial estate nearby never checked the cars so started parking there instead.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

This is ridiculous we have no prison places left and the prisons we have are falling apart.

[@TheGodParticle]

7 suicides in one year, damn that's high.

[@MushLoveUK]

Where was the investigation when the screws killed that guy in the segregation unit?

[@kevinwilliams1768]

I am second time I am watching a broadcast on this prison facility . Reminds me of a prison the remand yard in my homeland. What I find more astonishing no reform programs for prisoners .

[@briantitchener4829]

Staff retention is half the problem. In recent years it's been like a revolving door. Due to the introduction of staff cuts, lower starting pay and poorer shift-patterns it became a less attractive career choice. That, combined with increased violence, drugs and inexperienced staff has made a recipe for disaster.

[@andydudley1775]

we need more room for tories.

[@hamerjohn]

pull it down

[@johnconnolly2731]

My Son is in here at the moment! He's has problems with alcohol for the past 16 years. He needs proper help and won't get that in prison where he is just a number and a commodity as many others are, in men's and womens prisons. Have they just put him in here to finish him off!!!!! He's 36 now.

[@michellejarrett1826]

So is every other prison in the uk

[@49cchris]

Prisoner should be put to work skate parks should be built the creativity using wood different designs giving in mates capentery skills! Each prison should have more sports & skate park made!!

[@oc2phish07]

I have been involved with HMP Wandsworth and I can tell you that the facilities provided for occupational activities are very good.

[@plumduff3303]

Sounds like the house of commons

[@kevinbrady8420]

“…and of course suicide” that’s a strange way to say that 😂