English prison riot 'triggered by breathalysing row'

A riot at an English prison was triggered after some prisoners refused to be breathalysed for alcohol, according to Mark Freeman, deputy general secretary of the UK Prison Officers Association.

English prison riot 'triggered by breathalysing row'

A riot at an English prison was triggered after some prisoners refused to be breathalysed for alcohol, according to Mark Freeman, deputy general secretary of the UK Prison Officers Association.

Specialist officers had to be called in today after about 40 prisoners began a riot and set buildings alight at Ford open prison near Arundel, West Sussex in England, according to the British Ministry of Justice.

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