How prisoners are working Britain’s ‘cushiest’ jail: Cellmates throw brazen booze and drug-fuelled events inside pupil hall-style rooms at £253m ‘sensible’ jail the place inmates are known as ‘residents’ and there are NO bars on home windows

Terrified guards at ‘HMP Woke‘ have described each day life inside Britain’s cushiest jail, revealing how inmates throw booze and drug-fuelled cell events, clamber on to the roof and share their brazen antics on social media with contraband cell phones.

Employees at £253million HMP 5 Wells in Northamptonshire, the place inmates on the 1,700-capacity class C jail have entry to a gymnasium, snooker desk, desk tennis desk and a pill to achieve new {qualifications}, claimed they’re assaulted by convicts every day.

Among the many extra stunning allegations embody prisoners hurling sexual taunts at feminine workers and brawling with rival gangs inside, with some situations apparently even resulting in stabbings. 

In movies not too long ago uploaded to social media, cellmates are seen openly partying with alcohol and medicines. They look like chanting and dancing as if they’re at a rave, whereas others are seen clambering onto the rooftops of a few of Britain’s prisons.

One guard who modified his identify to Harry claimed that workers are ‘consistently’ coming throughout selfmade or smuggled weapons and claimed an officer was stabbed. He informed Sky Information: ‘The prisoners run the jail. If issues do not change somebody goes to get killed.’

One other guard who has been named Sally mentioned she fears that one thing ‘main’ goes to occur on the jail, comparable to a ‘stabbing or homicide.’  She warned: ‘We get urine and faeces thrown in our face. We get spat at. We get issues thrown at us. An officer acquired stabbed just a few weeks in the past. We get punched, kicked, tripped up, hit with pool cues. One thing like that occurs every day.’ 

Sally additionally famous that the jail had points with lack of staffing, which meant it was ‘frequent’ for one feminine officer to be alone with 60 males when there needs to be a minimum of two folks on the look out. Harry mentioned that while he educated with 17 folks for the job, solely two have stayed. 

The whistleblowers additionally claimed that corrupt members of workers might be bringing in contraband medicine for prisoners. 

Safety agency G4S, which is liable for safety on the jail, insisted the guard who was mentioned to have been stabbed acquired solely ‘superficial accidents’.

Clips confirmed convicted criminals showing to social gathering with booze and medicines on the jail

Employees at HMP 5 Wells in Northamptonshire, which is run by safety agency G4S, anonymously informed Sky Information that assaults on workers are ‘a each day occasion’. Left: A picture showing to point out inmates downing photographs at a celebration at HMP 5 Wells. Proper: A picture, which was posted on YouTube, additionally appeared to point out a prisoner on the roof of the jail

Costing £253million to construct, HMP 5 Wells (pictured in aerial {photograph}) is the UK’s first privately run mega jail in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire

Constructed from recycled supplies and utilizing photo voltaic panels to cut back its carbon footprint, the lock-up may have a transparent deal with rehabilitating offenders (Pictured: Multi-use video games space)

Harry additionally famous that inmates know when their bodycams aren’t working and that there’s a lack of apparatus. However G4S informed Sky Information that workers did have ‘sufficient’  radios, bodycams and alarm buttons that may be pressed for assist.

He mentioned: ‘We’re fortunate if we get a radio to go on to the landings. And we have a really restricted quantity of bodycams that work. It is like a fortunate dip raffle.’

In a single clip, a caption seems to boast of prisoners having Ciroc and Gray Goose vodkas, and Wray & Nephew Rum. They then seem to lick salt from their arms and chunk a lemon wedge earlier than downing their photographs, earlier than dancing to music and showing to smoke hashish.

On the time G4S informed MailOnline motion has been taken after livid sources blasted: ‘The lunatics are working the asylum’ – including: ‘They had been partying it up for hours and so brazen about it. Clearly they weren’t frightened about guards coming in to spoil their enjoyable.’

G4S mentioned all cells of the prisoners concerned within the movies have been searched and the ‘applicable motion taken’, with prisoners concerned placed on report and set to be drug examined.

A spokesperson informed MailOnline: ‘Our devoted workers work tirelessly to detect, intercept and confiscate contraband. Anybody discovered with a cell phone, medicine or alcohol in jail is breaking the legislation and should face further time behind bars.’

Costing £253million to construct, it’s seen as a flagship instance of the Authorities’s goal to create a ‘trendy, environment friendly jail property’.

The jail presents gentle and ethereal rooms (pictured) that would not look misplaced in a college halls brochure 

The jail is seen as a flagship instance of the Authorities’s goal to create a ‘trendy, environment friendly jail property’ (Pictured: Brilliant and spacious room for inmate)

Its buildings are within the form of crosses and maintain as much as 1,680 inmates, who sleep in brightly adorned and spacious rooms – full with bar-less sliding home windows providing unobstructed views over the gorgeous River Nene and a fishing lake. The landscaped grounds at 5 Wells embody a horticultural space and 4 multi-use video games areas, two of which have raised bleachers for spectators.

It doesn’t have bars throughout its home windows, and offers prisoners with entry to a gymnasium, snooker desk, desk tennis desk and a pill to achieve new {qualifications}. 

The jail designers have ditched the same old Okay-shaped formation of jail housing blocks and as an alternative used seven staggered cross-shaped buildings. The Okay-block type has been favoured since Victorian occasions, with the concept that a single jail officer might be positioned within the centre of the radial arms of corridors and survey all of the cells shortly.

The brand new cross-shaped buildings imply the corridors are damaged up into smaller zones, reasonably than miles of lengthy corridors, which allow jail workers to have extra direct contact with prisoners. The buildings have been organized round fantastically landscaped courtyards and there’s additionally a central hub for training, vocational coaching and social services.

The jail, which options electrical automobile charging factors, is Britain’s first eco-friendly jail and has been constructed utilizing recycled supplies whereas incorporating inexperienced power.

It makes use of extra environment friendly heating and scorching water, in addition to renewable power, together with photo voltaic panels.

The jail construct has been dealt with by Kier group and has been made on the location of the previous HMP Wellingborough website.

The previous jail was opened as a Borstal in 1963 earlier than being transformed right into a Coaching Jail for males in 1990. It was closed down in 2012, and held a most of 650 grownup male inmates.

In 2018, it was confirmed the jail website would home a brand new Class C jail, and HMP 5 Wells started development a 12 months later.

The identify HMP 5 Wells displays the 5 wells within the space, which function in Wellingborough’s coat of arms.

A spokesperson for G4S informed MailOnline at present: ‘The security of workers and prisoners is our primary precedence and we don’t tolerate violence. Managers take swift and sturdy motion when severe incidents do occur. Such incidents are then referred to the police to assist additional prosecution.

‘We’ve ample ranges of staffing to run a secure, constant and secure regime. We proceed to drive recruitment to extend our staffing numbers which is able to allow us to broaden our present jail regime.

‘Nearly all of our workers have greater than 12 months’ jail expertise and we have now a big group of officers on secondment from different G4S prisons, offering further assist and expertise. We’re additional rising the variety of First Line Managers to offer further steerage and to mentor newly recruited workers.

‘HMP 5 Wells workers are happy with the nice work that has been carried out since opening to assist and develop workers and to assist prisoners flip their lives round. We all know there’s extra to be performed and proceed to take steps to enhance the regime each day.

‘Our devoted officers work tirelessly to detect, intercept and confiscate contraband by way of a spread of measures together with the usage of patrol and drug detection canine, joint operations with Northamptonshire Police and HMPPS counter-corruption colleagues.

‘We perceive that working in a jail is a really rewarding vocation however may also be difficult and we’re dedicated to supporting and caring for our workers.’

MailOnline have reached out to The Ministry of Justice for remark.