"It's a s***hole mate - proper bad": Ex-Strangeways inmates' lift lid on 'disgusting' conditions inside

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

Inmates released from rat-infested Strangeways prison - slammed by the government's watchdog last week - have described shocking conditions inside the jail, claiming drugs were 'rife' and drones deliver 'anything you can think of' to inmates.

Last week, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, Charlie Taylor, concluded conditions were so concerning he took the unusual decision to publish an urgent improvement notice he had sent to Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood.

He described 'squalid' and 'filthy' conditions inside the the crumbling 156-year-old Victorian jail, which Manchester City Council would like to see demolished.

The supply of drugs inside was 'catastrophic', said the report. Now, two recently released prisons have described their experience inside Strangeways, formally HMP Manchester, and detailed the scale of the supply of drugs inside alongside how unsafe they felt behind bars. READ MORE: Inside Strangeways, the drug-ridden rat-infested prison 'run by gangs' Karl Wilson, 29, who told the Manchester Evening News he was out after serving a 32 month sentence for burglary, said he had been 'in and out of jail' since he was a teenager but said HMP Manchester was the worst prison he had ever experienced. "It's a dive," he said.