HMP Swaleside

The LTHSE holds dangerous offenders serving very long sentences. Category B training prisons should play a vital role in working with these men to reduce their risk to the public when they get out. Instead, men are languishing in their cells and criminal behaviour is going unchecked by often inexperienced officers, the dealing and use of drugs is rife and there are frightening levels of violence, including some very serious assaults on both prisoners and staff. I am deeply concerned by the risk this poses to the public as increasing numbers of men are released directly from prisons like Swaleside into the community, with little work to rehabilitate them or reduce their future risk of harm.