Belmarsh, Isis, Thameside: Tunnel tolls will make it harder to hire prison staff

The UK’s highest-security prison warned Sadiq Khan that imposing tolls on the Blackwall and Silvertown tunnels would make it harder to recruit and retain prison guards, it can be revealed. Bosses at Belmarsh prison wrote to Transport for London to plead for its staff – and those at adjacent Thameside prison and Isis young offenders’ institute – to be exempt from paying the new tolls. […]