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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

HMP Wandsworth had seven inmate suicides in past year, report finds

Barbed wire along top of fence at prison.
The south London jail was recommended for urgent improvement after a catastrophic inspection in May. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

A scandal-hit prison that has been called the worst in England and Wales has had a further collapse in its conditions, with seven suicides by inmates over the past year, a damning report has found.

HMP Wandsworth, from which a terror suspect escaped and where a prison officer was filmed having sex with an inmate, will receive £100m from the lord chancellor after findings from the prisons watchdog, the government announced on Tuesday.

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