BenIreland commented Prison staff levels reduced amid increase in self-harm

The number of prison officers in Nottingham has dropped again, after the Government said it would recruit more officers to combat growing reports of drugs and violence.Prisons have now been dubbed a "toxic cocktail of violence, death and human misery" by a leading penal reform group.Staff numbers of frontline officers at HMP Nottingham have dropped from 200 to 166 in the past year, a 17 percent decrease.There had been 230 officers in 2013 but the number fell to 160 a year later before...