Call for action to protect prison officers ‘before there is a fatality’

Four officers were injured in violence at HMP Woodhill (Chris Radburn/PA) - (PA Archive)

A prison officers’ union has called for urgent action to protect guards from violence after attacks at two jails.

One officer at HMP Woodhill near Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, was slashed in the neck and ear with an improvised weapon on Tuesday, and needed hospital treatment, the Prison Officers’ Association said.