Open-prison staffing under review after riot at English facility

Staffing levels at an English open prison which saw just two officers and four support staff in charge of 500 inmates on the night of an “unprecedented” riot will be reviewed, British prisons minister Crispin Blunt said today.

Mr Blunt, who spent two hours talking to staff and inmates at Ford prison near Arundel, West Sussex in England, following the New Year’s Day rampage, said the Prison Service inquiry will need to consider whether the violence could be repeated.