Prisons in the dock
Updated on 26 June 2008
The jury at an inquest holds a private prison company partly to blame for the death of an inmate. Simon Israel reports.
Wayne Reid was stabbed by another prisoner at Rye Hill jail in Warwickshire, run by the private security group GSL.
The jury found that knives were allowed in because of inadequate searches of staff.
Channel 4 News has learned that under a penalty point system imposed by the government, the discovery of weapons was not thought as important an offence as an assault.
