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2 Crim. Behav. & Mental Health ii (1992)

handle is hein.journals/cbmh2 and id is 1 raw text is: Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health 2, ii-x, 1992 @ Whurr Publishers Ltd Editorial Prison conditions in England and Wales: the Woolf Report and the White Paper For many years the English prison system has been dogged by quite serious disturbances, some amounting to full-scale riots. The most serious incident to date occurred in 1990: a riot started at Manchester prison on 1 April and was not ended until 25 April. The whole of the interior of the prison was gutted, injuries were caused to 147 members of staff and 47 prisoners, two prisoners later died and their deaths may have been related to the incident. It was estimated that the damage caused to the buildings would cost E60 million to repair. A second disturbance took place at Glen Parva, an institution for young offenders, on Friday 6 April. The incident was over by the next day but five officers and one inmate had been injured. The following day a distur- bance began at Dartmoor prison and rumbled on until 14 April. During the disturbance some fires were set in cells and one prisoner died as a result. The day after the Dartmoor disturbance started a further incident occurred at Cardiff and although this riot was brought to a speedy conclusion, four officers were injured and one prisoner sustained a broken ankle. That same day a riot also broke out at Bristol prison which did an immense amount of damage estimated at about five million pounds. The incident was over the next day but by then 17 staff and 12 prisoners had been injured. The last incident in the series occurred at Pucklechurch Remand Centre on 22 April, injuring 47 members of staff and 35 inmates and causing a million pounds' worth of damage in the space of 48 hours. It is hardly surprising that the Home Secretary set up a major wide-ranging inquiry. The Report, Part I by Lord Justice Woolf, and Part II by Lord Justice Woolf and Judge Steven Tumim were finished on 31 January 1991 (Woolf & Tumim, 1991). The inquiry found endemic problems which included insanitary and over- crowded physical conditions, negative and unconstructive regimes, a lack of respect for prisoners, destructive effects of imprisonment on family ties for prisoners, a lack of any form of independent redress for grievances, a short- age of staff, a lack of staff training, a staff sense of being undervalued, a lack

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