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Inside Britain’s prisons crisis

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Alex South

I met Daniel in a high-security prison, where I worked as a prison officer. He was just 21. We’d talked about him a lot before he arrived on the...

Operation Early Dawn, the government’s latest plan to tackle prison overcrowding, sounds almost like a new beginning, a fresh start. But I imagine...

Just in case you weren’t sure: prison officers are not allowed to have sex with inmates. Given the recent footage that has been circulating on...

I began my career as a prison officer at a high-security men’s establishment, working with prisoners serving sentences ranging from 25 years to...