Sex offenders speak out on prison bullying

Assaults, intimidation and food tampering. This is the daily regime for the residents of K Wing, which houses HMP Liverpool's most vulnerable prisoners, including convicted paedophiles. [...]

These inmates quickly become easy prey for the more ruthless lags who attempt to extort money, tobacco or food. If they fail to pay up they are beaten or suffer relentless verbal and physical abuse, often driving their victims to the brink of suicide. [...] Assaults have included lighter fuel being thrown into a prisoner's face and set alight and six men armed with table legs beating two prisoners. Another widely-used way to inflict injury is to throw hot water which contains sugar into somebody's face; the sugar sticks to the skin and burns deeply, prolonging the agony. [...]

JMU Journalism approached Her Majesty's Prison Service for a reaction to our investigation, but they refused to comment.

source: Article 'Sex offenders speak out on prison bullying' by Liam Deveney; www.jmu-journalism.org.uk/#/news-201/4538684054; JMU Journalism; 2010