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Jail sends in cats to clean out dirty rats
Daily Star Sunday
|February 15, 2026
NO HOLDS BARRED: Feral feline
WILD cats have been drafted in to clean up a rat-infested prison.
Bosses at HMP Featherstone have turned to the feral felines to tackle the filthy rodents.
It comes after lags were caught launching rubbish from cell windows and a string of so-called “dirty protests” at the “dilapidated” Category C jail in Staffordshire.
This story is from the February 15, 2026 edition of Daily Star Sunday.
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