Wormwood Scrubs (HM Prison)
Wormwood Scrubs is a British prison built in the 1880s. It has a poor reputation and has been the subject of repeated criticism. There have been numerous fights, disturbances and protest acts in the prison's history. In 1979 there was a rooftop protest over visiting rights staged by IRA prisoners. In the rioting, 60 inmates and several prison officers were injured. In 1982, an enquiry into the rioting blamed much of the difficulties on failings in the prison management. The prison govenor, John McCarthy, had quit before the rioting. He had described Wormwood Scrubs as a "penal dustbin" in a letter to the Times.
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