With a burgeoning population and chronic staff shortages, UK prisons are in crisis. Nursing staff caring for inmates at HMP Wandsworth in London are frank about the problems – but insist it is great place to be a nurse
HMP Wandsworth is the largest prison in the UK. With 1,600 prisoners and more than 500 new and transferred prisoners each month, it is also one of the largest prisons in western Europe.
Nursing Standard. 31, 22, 18-20. doi: 10.7748/ns.31.22.18.s22
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