New Report Slams Wormwood Scrubs
"A culture of staff brutality could 're-emerge' at Wormwood Scrubs jail, four years after a police investigation which led to the jailing of six prison officers for assault, the Chief Inspector of Prisons warned today.

Although the 1,000-inmate jail is now rid of rogue officers who violently assaulted inmates, the institution is still 'stigmatised' and struggling to move on, Anne Owers said.

The west London prison had 'stalled, or was sliding backwards' in areas that had begun to improve at the last inspection two years ago."

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TV, gym, DVDs (and no 18-plus films)... prisoners will have to 'earn privileges' in jails as Government cracks down on lax regime

Prisoners will no longer have the automatic right to a television in their cell and could be barred from going to the gym, wearing their own clothes and watching DVDs unless they are prepared to work, the Justice Secretary Chris Grayling will announce today.


As part of a part of a package of measures to appease right-wing complaints that prisons are too lax inmates will be made to “earn privileges” that are currently automatic.

This will include an expectation that inmates will no longer be able to turn down prison work without consequences while perks such as pay TV will end altogether.

However prison reformers criticised the plans as “punishing people for an idleness that prisons encourage” and said it was “bizarre” to be introducing new layers of red tape which would add to the cost of prison and demands on staff time.

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