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Article: Prisoners held sway at Maze, Inquiry is told.
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- Portadown Times (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- April 24, 2008
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MORE damning revelations about security procedures at the Maze Prison emerged during the Billy Wright Inquiry in Banbridge this week.
Former prison officer Raymond Mitchell - who worked on H Block 6 at the Maze between 1995 and 1998 - said the decision to allow prisoners unrestricted access to their cells on a 24-hour basis and the withdrawal of prison staff from the wings had made the Maze 'a scary place to work' in 1997 - the year of Wright's murder by the INLA.
He said the degree of staff control within the Maze prison was completely dependent upon prisoner compliance.
He told the inquiry panel that staff at the Maze very quickly learned to ...