Allegation by home release prisoner
1972Cliff Slaughter Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: headlines and words can be misread, and a caption or advert can run into the text. For anything you quote, read the scan.
Monday night.
'There was just one opportunity a day to go to the recess (lavatory), whether you wanted to or not. And when you got there it was filthier and filthier.
Describing the outbreak of violence, he said: 'On Saturday night the tea was hours late and the screws (prison officers) were going round the block ripping picture boards and fitted furniture off the cell doors with a crowbar and a hammer.
'About 7.30, a man shouted: "The bastards have ripped the board off the wall, two photos are missing and the one of my wife is torn up." He picked up his chair and started smashing the glass.' The prison officers have been demanding tougher treatment of inmates for some time and this