'A prison officer will get killed': Staff warn of chaos and violence inside flagship super prison

Drunken cell parties, fights, stabbings, prison guards with faulty equipment out of their depth.

Welcome to HMP Five Wells in Northamptonshire, where staff Sky News has spoken to claim all these events have taken place, and one guard told us assaults on staff are “a daily event.”

Three prison guards have blown the whistle on life inside the state-of-the-art super-prison run by security firm G4S. They say they are short-staffed, there are too many inexperienced staff, they are under-equipped and there is a culture that is allowing prisoners to run riot.

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