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Monday, February 18, 2008
Seeking solitary: prison gang wars force fearful inmates to plead for segregation
Seeking solitary: prison gang wars force fearful inmates to plead for segregation
"The segregation units in Britain's high security prisons used to be full of prisoners being punished for breaking the rules or being held in solitary because they were too dangerous to mix with others.
But now the "seg units" at institutions such as Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire are packed with a different kind of prisoner: those so fearful for their safety that they have asked to be isolated for their own protection".
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