A member of staff at a prison in Nottinghamshire needed hospital treatment after an attack by a prisoner, it has been confirmed. The prison officer was injured at HMP Lowdham Grange on 17 April but no details of the nature of the attack or the injuries sustained have been released. A prison service spokesperson confirmed […]
Prison officers will demand the immediate issue of electric stun guns to protect staff guarding Britain’s most dangerous jails when they meet the justice secretary this week. In an urgent meeting with Shabana Mahmood, called after the attack on three officers at HMP Frankland, allegedly by the convicted terrorist Hashem Abedi. Two were seriously injured […]
Prison officers could be issued with stab vests following the HMP Frankland knife attack by the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber. Shabana Mahmood, the Justice Secretary, announced that the review into the attack by Hashem Abedi will consider whether frontline prison officers should be given body armour. Abedi, who is serving a life sentence […]
A prison officer at HMP Frankland in County Durham has told the BBC “there needs to be an urgent change in security measures” across all prisons or staff will die. It comes after the Manchester Arena bomber Hashem Abedi threw hot oil at officers and stabbed them with makeshift weapons at the prison on Saturday. […]
HMP Whitemoor prison officer Calvin Bishop took his own life after attack by three inmates. Ralique Young, Zeshaun Daley and Clayton Barber attacked a prison officer, who subsequently took his own life, have been handed extra time on top of their existing life sentences. Ralique Young, 24, was with other prisoners in the exercise yard […]
A life sentence prisoner’s sentence has been extended by six months after an unprovoked attack on prison officers. Cedric Kiyago was in an unlocked cell at HMP Whitemoor on February 23 last year when he noticed a fellow prisoner being restrained. The 29-year-old ran towards the scene and approached the officers dealing with incident from […]
Since 2019, claims made by prison staff at HMP Frankland, in Brasside, have cost in excess of £1.3m, according to new data obtained by prison personal injury solicitors. Over the past five years, claim costs at the Category A men’s prison totalled £1,307,921.34, with the highest amount in 2021/22 standing at a £978,569.42. A Ministry […]
The number of assaults on officers at a women’s prison in Surrey is “extremely concerning”, an MP has said. Rebecca Paul, Conservative MP for Reigate, said prison officers did an important job and asked in the House of Commons on Tuesday what steps were being taken to ensure they were protected in their jobs. Downview […]
A violent prisoner who left a female officer covered in blood after attacking her for trying to remove dirty plates from his cell has been given another 14 months behind bars. This is the second time Reece Baggott, 33, has been convicted for attacking a prison officer. In April, 2022, he was sentenced to 18 […]
A prisoner who became angry because he could not get vape capsules punched a prison officer in the face, loosening one of his teeth, which later fell out. Callum Gordon was at HMP Fosse Way in Leicester when the attack happened. The 34-year-old was on the segregation wing at the time when two prison guards arrived […]
A former heroin dealer who has since turned his life around and now works as a head chef found himself close to being sent back to prison for an assault on a prison officer during his time behind bars. Conor Bassnett was jailed for six-and-a-half years in 2022, and spent part of his jail term […]
Charges against a former prisoner accused of fracturing a prison officer’s cheekbone and eye socket have been dropped after two juries could not reach a verdict. Lewis Whitmee-Craig, who was serving a custodial sentence at HMP Bullingdon near Bicester at the time of the incident, has been on trial at Oxford Crown Court twice charged […]