At that rate more than one in four of the prison service’s 20,000 frontline staff will take time off through stress this year. Our revelations come amid growing discipline problems and after assaults on staff topped 8,000 last year – 160 every week. Last night prison officers’ union the POA said staff were burnt out from gruelling shifts. Violence against prison staff and among inmates in jails in England and Wales has hit record highs, official figures show. Dorset’s Portland prison, for men and young offenders, was worst for violence with 626 incidents per 1,000 population.

Source: Daily Mirror September 29, 2018 17:48 UTC