These photos offer an insight into what life is like inside HMP Liverpool as a refurbishment continues.
Walton jail, officially known as HMP Liverpool, was once dubbed as Britain's worst prison following a damning inspection in 2017, which found it infested with rats and cockroaches, flooded with drugs and strewn with rubbish. It has since undergone a dramatic turnaround, with an inspection in 2019 finding "the squalor and filth" had been "replaced by clean and decent living conditions for the vast majority of prisoners."
A new report has now been published showing the conditions inspectors found when they visited the prison in an unannounced inspection this July. The report said the jail had undergone an "impressive transformation" from the "parlous state" it was in five years ago.
