The prison service is interviewing the hardened crims detained at Her Majesty’s pleasure at HMP Werrington to find ringleaders of a rooftop protest which ended about 3pm today. The masked inmates, armed with weapons such as a soap bar-in-a-sock, staged a seven-hour rooftop protest – to demand better food and range of satellite TV stations.
Clive Muffblaster, chairman of the Prison Officer's Association, blamed prison overcrowding for the protest. "It appears once again that overcrowding has resulted in serious problems in the pokey. Urgent action must be taken to reduce the current prison population, build more prisons, or introduce the death penalty to thin out the number of crims we already have before further disturbances occur."
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| HMP Werrington, today |
He said staff at the jail blamed the incident on pressure arising from accommodating streams of crims from Longton, currently home to vicious warfare between gangs from North and South Longton.
One prisoner told The Daily Oatcake: "We are protesting because of the way they treat us here. It is a disgrace and the food is terrible. There's no 'haute cuisine', the vegetables are not fresh enough, or organic, the meat is not free range and the truffles served up on Saturday nights are a disgrace."
Staffordshire Police spokesman Barry Shanks had predicted the early end to the siege: "Once they get bored and cold they will soon be down. 'Facejacker' is on tonight."
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