WATCH | "A Stab Vest Won’t Stop the Bleeding”: A Serving Officer’s Post Lays Bare a Prison System on the Brink

In a searing message shared online, a frontline prison officer exposes the daily dangers faced by staff—while violence spirals, foreign criminals fill our jails, and the government offers nothing but

A serving prison officer put it bluntly this week: “Giving prison officers stab vests and calling it a solution is like putting a plaster on a bullet wound and calling it healed.” That line has resonated across the overstreched underpaid and overworked prison service and beyond.

Because it’s true. Behind the wire, things are deteriorating and fast. Viole…