Strangeways prison riots

Title

Strangeways prison riots

Genre

Interview

TX Date

2 Apr 1990

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:04:28

Description

Richard Dallyn interviews Home Office minister David Mellor on the Strangeways prison riots and claims by John Bartell, Chairman of the Prison Officers Association that the Government was criminally negligent as it had known in advance trouble was brewing. Counters with a positive inspection report by Judge Stephen Tumin on the prison.

Contributors

David Mellor; Richard Dallyn

Keywords

Reports; Prisons; Riots; Prisoners; Prison Officers Association; Strangeways Prison; Prison administration; John Bartell; Stephen Tumin

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