A youth prison in Dorset has been condemned as "filthy and squalid" two years after inspectors first highlighted the problem.
The prisons inspectorate said one unit at Portland young offenders' institution had no built-in sanitation and was "unkempt and uncared for".
Chief Inspector of Prisons, Dame Anne Owers, said it "should be demolished".
In 2007 she criticised the 160-year-old jail's sanitation in a report following an unannounced inspection.
The prison holds 588 young offenders aged 18-21.
I used to work in this nick. It is, indeed, spectacularly horrible and inhumane. And they wonder why the reoffending rate is so high.
ReplyDeleteThis hell hole should be demolished, for sure. But there's no reason to stop there...