Crisis, what crisis at HMP Wormwood Scrubs

Commenting on the HM Inspector of Prisons report on HMP Wormwood Scrubs, Juliet Lyon, Director of the Prison Reform Trust (PRT), said:

“Over two years, Wormwood Scrubs, London’s best-known Victorian jail, has gone from being an establishment described as getting the basics right to one where standards have deteriorated, remaining staff are overstretched and prisoners feel unsafe. Drastic cuts combined with rushed policy decisions are driving our prisons into freefall. Locking people up in filthy cells with nothing to do is no way to transform rehabilitation. If the Justice Secretary is still asking crisis what crisis, he should read this report from cover to cover.”