If anyone is puzzled by the idea that a prison will not intentionally release two people in one day, then a brief taster for HMP Wandsworth from last year will quickly explain things.
Despite a high-profile escape from South London only months ago, conditions were chaotic during the inspection when all the staff were unreliable. of the day, all the prisoners of the day, all the prisoners of the day, all the prisoners of the day, all the prisoners of the day, all the prisoners of the day, all the prisoners of the day, all the prisoners of the day, all the prisoners of the day, all the prisoners of the day, all the prisoners of the day all the staff cannot be trusted in the day, Charlie Taylor, the chief inspector of prisons, reported with obvious bad confidence.
“No reliable roll could assure leaders that all prisoners were accounted for,” he wrote. After the escape of the espionage suspect Daniel Khalife, who raised himself under a delivery van, “it is inevitable that the leaders did not focus their attention on this area”, he said.
Like the prison service, there is a lot of context to it. There should be no more than 963 men, most of the Wandshshers have about 1,500 or so kept in dirty and often dirty conditions, during periods of being locked in cells for 22 hours.
Adding to the chaos is the constant state of most prisoners. According to another report In the prison, it was published this month by one of the independent monitoring boards that go to the prisons to watch the convicts, only 15% of the restops, who have been sentenced but have not yet been sentenced in Remand cases or have not yet been sentenced.
Overseeing all this is about 85 staff, and always less. According to Taylor’s report, a combination of illness and training commitments meant that at any one time a third of the prison staff was away from prison duties.
Those in the prison wings often do not experience. Across the prison service in England and Wales, every year about one is seven Junior Prison staff are being let go, and for senior officers the attrition rate is one in eight.
At Wandsworth, Taylor found that this mass of inexperienced prison officers was carrying out the change. “Staff are being deliberately neglected, they don’t really understand their role and they don’t have direction, training and consistent support from leaders,” he wrote.
It should be noted that in Taylor’s report some changes were made. A more recent independent inspection says that while it is still inhabited and uninhabited, Wandshorth now enjoys new leadership and a sense of strategic direction”.
As a sign of this, while the prison found no less than 81 identifiable security failures in September 2023 after this year has been targeted as a year marked “critical”.
But at the same time, the conditions remain unreasonably grave, with more than 700 incidents of self-harm last year, four attacks, although all the metrics are gradually improving.
Justice officials say it may be unfair to label the prison as dysfunctional; It’s more the inevitable result of many people doing their best to improve things in the near-impossible conditions of a Subpan Victorian prison.
Added to all this, and seems to be central to the undisclosed releases of Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, a trick system, which means that the logistics for the logistics of the logs and transfers are made through releases and transfers.
Mark Fairhurst, who heads the association of prison officers, said that the incidents this week both went to the Clerical services and the developing clerical systems and the developing systems of staff administration in our prisons”.
He said: “Prisons across the country are underfunded