Behind Bars: Inmates Out of Control!

The UK Prison system is collapsing. Staff shortages, under-funding, corruption, violence and an exploding drug epidemic have gone hand in hand to create a very dangerous cycle. But while the government fanfares its planned recruitment of an extra 2,500 officers to cope with the problem, it fails to mention that job retention levels are at their lowest; nor does it highlight the thousands who have previously been made redundant due to cutbacks, nor the 4,036 who have left in the last 12 months, nor indeed the 820 officers sacked for misconduct in the last 5 years.