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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Diane Taylor

HMP Wandsworth living conditions are ‘inhumane’, finds report

A prison officer walks down the C wing at Wandsworth prison.
The number of deaths at the prison more than doubled within the space of a year. Photograph: Andrew Aitchison/Corbis/Getty Images

Wandsworth prison is crumbling, overcrowded and vermin-infested, with inmates living in half the cell space available when it was first opened in 1851, according to a report published on Thursday.

The south London prison’s independent monitoring board identified a litany of failings in its annual report, concluding that “the prison is not safe” and “conditions remained inhumane”.

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