TAXPAYERS are footing a bill of nearly £550,000 every week to deal with a mountain of prison compensation claims.
The public purse has been hit for £142.8million to settle thousands of cases brought by inmates, staff and visitors in the past five years.
And our figures, revealed under the Freedom of Information Act, show £82.3m went to criminals or people being held on remand.
More than half of that - £48.6million - was used to settle claims from inmates injured in slips and falls.
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