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Assaulted At Work.
Prison officers stabbed in head and have their eyes gouged as lag violence soars
WARNING, GRAPHIC IMAGES: New figures reveal there are more than 10,000 injuries inflicted on prison staff every year - and things are getting tougher as exhausted guards quit
Brusthom Ziamani was named as the alleged attacker of five officers in a prison in Cambridge
Stabbed in the head, an eye almost gouged out, these horrific pictures show what prison officers face.
These sickening attacks by inmates are some of the 10,000-plus injuries inflicted on staff in a year. More than 1,000 were serious.
Mick Pimblett, of the prison officers’ association which released the photos, said: “They demonstrate the true scale of the problem.
"Every day staff are forced to put their lives at risk to keep dangerous inmates at bay.”
Last month five guards were hospitalised by an inmate at HMP Bristol. Meanwhile Brusthom Ziamani, 24, jailed in 2015 for plotting to behead an Army cadet, was named as the alleged attacker of five officers seriously injured at category A Whitemoor jail in Cambridgeshire.
There were also more than 24,000 prisoner on prisoner assaults in the year to June 2019, equivalent to 66 a day.
Tory budget cuts are piling pressure on a dwindling workforce who have to tackle record levels of violence, self harm and suicides.
The POA says it has lost in excess of 7,000 frontline staff since 2010 – and hundreds left last year alone.
Last year the Sunday People revealed over the past five years more than 1,700 officers have quit the Prison Service before completing 12 months of work.
In the past year alone more than 650 new prison staff on a starting salary of £22,000 walked away within a year.
A source said: “It’s terrifying that the prison population has more than doubled in 25 years but we’re not keeping up.”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/prison-officers-stabbed-head-eyes-21556324
WARNING, GRAPHIC IMAGES: New figures reveal there are more than 10,000 injuries inflicted on prison staff every year - and things are getting tougher as exhausted guards quit
Brusthom Ziamani was named as the alleged attacker of five officers in a prison in Cambridge
Stabbed in the head, an eye almost gouged out, these horrific pictures show what prison officers face.
These sickening attacks by inmates are some of the 10,000-plus injuries inflicted on staff in a year. More than 1,000 were serious.
Mick Pimblett, of the prison officers’ association which released the photos, said: “They demonstrate the true scale of the problem.
"Every day staff are forced to put their lives at risk to keep dangerous inmates at bay.”
Last month five guards were hospitalised by an inmate at HMP Bristol. Meanwhile Brusthom Ziamani, 24, jailed in 2015 for plotting to behead an Army cadet, was named as the alleged attacker of five officers seriously injured at category A Whitemoor jail in Cambridgeshire.
There were also more than 24,000 prisoner on prisoner assaults in the year to June 2019, equivalent to 66 a day.
Tory budget cuts are piling pressure on a dwindling workforce who have to tackle record levels of violence, self harm and suicides.
The POA says it has lost in excess of 7,000 frontline staff since 2010 – and hundreds left last year alone.
Last year the Sunday People revealed over the past five years more than 1,700 officers have quit the Prison Service before completing 12 months of work.
In the past year alone more than 650 new prison staff on a starting salary of £22,000 walked away within a year.
A source said: “It’s terrifying that the prison population has more than doubled in 25 years but we’re not keeping up.”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/prison-officers-stabbed-head-eyes-21556324
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Almost 8,500 assaults were reported throughout last year, seeing violence up by more than a quarter on the previous 12 months
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6154005/attack-prison-guards-record-high/