UK cell-ing our prison staff short

YOU REALLY, really have to wonder what is going on in Britain's jails.

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Why are prisoners who most of us would regard as psychotic or psychopathic allowed access to deadly materials - materials which they then use against prison officers?

Apparently it's happened again. The so-called "Southport killer", Axel Rudakubana, below, is alleged to have hurled boiling water over an officer at HMP Belmarsh last Thursday. The officer had opened the spy-hole in the door of Rudakubana's cell to check on him, and reportedly had a kettleful of boiling water thrown directly in the face.