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Prisions in Brief; UK: Brutality complaints at HMP Full Sutton.

01 March 2003

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Prison support organisations report continued concerns following further complaints about staff brutality in the segregation unit at Full Sutton. In a report on the recent assaults on prisoner Charles Bronson in the Full Sutton segregation unit, Dr Bob Johnson, a one-time employee of the prison service, commented that "Perhaps most troubling, there is the suggestion of an under-culture of physical brutality which may run somewhat as follows: if a prisoner smashes property, then staff are expected to smash the prisoner." In 1994, Fight Racism, Fight Imperialism highlighted complaints of prisoners at Full Sutton segregation unit that a gang of eight to ten prison officers maintained a reign of terror, dragging prisoners from their cells and systematically assaulting them. The police are currently investigating fresh complaints about staff brutality in the Full Sutton segregation unit. Fight Racism, Fight Imperialism April 2003; Miscarriages of Justice UK 5.4.03

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