An HMP Frankland prison officer in Durham County told the BBC “there must be an urgent change in security measures” in all prisons or staff will die.
It occurs after the Manchester Arena Hashem Abedi bomber threw hot oil into the officers and stabbed them with improvised weapons in the prison on Saturday. Three staff members were seriously injured, and one goes back to the hospital.
Abedi was in the separation center, where inmates are maintained to prevent extremism and toxic ideologies from spreading. The BBC understands that it only has eight cells.
Prison Minister Lord Timonon, who visited HMP Frankland on Wednesday, said the government “would do everything that can protect those who work in our prisons.”
Security measures at the separation center allowed prisoners to access kitchens, but this was suspended by the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) after the HMP Frankland incident. Officers who work in the unit are not stabs.
Lord Tumonon said the terms and scope of an independent review of the attack would be established in the next few days.
The prison officer speaks with the BBC under anonymity, said: “I think the stabs would help us feel more secure and I do not get why they beat us. There.
“This attack leads to how dangerous this work is. And it feels more dangerous now than before, at least in my career,” they added.
“You do this work and see attacks all the time, but it has me because it is very serious and it was Abedi and it is the media.”
Earlier this week, Mark Fairhurst, president of the Association of Prison Officers (POA), said the union wanted the officers to be equipped with white weapon vests, but argued that the leaders of the penitentiary service “do not want all to seem too milestone.”
HMP officer Frankland described the mood in prison as “descending and miserable.”
“Everyone is talking about how [the attack] It was not caused and planned by him, “they said.
The warning occurred when POA told the BBC that he was writing to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to request better security from his members.
The general secretary of the union, Steve Gillan, visited HMP Frankland on Tuesday.
He said: “I will write to the prime minister about true personnel groups in relation to the appeasement of prisoners in the separation unit and the privileges offered, as self -sufficiency facilities, which do not hesitate to security.
“I will also raise the problem on the white weapon -proof vests and the need for TASERS in certain circumstances.”
In the 12 months until September 2024, the assault rate to personnel of a new peak or 120 assaults per 1,000 prisoners (10,496 assaults on the staff), 19% more than from 12 months to September 2023.
The president of the Association of Governors of the Prison, Tom Wheatley, said that violence in prisons “happens daily” and was “a reality of prison life.”
“It can be minimized, but it is very widespread for prevention absolutely,” he added.
“I think the second thing to say is that the staff who was Kurdish, the staff who was there, probably saved each one, there are lives. Therefore, the way they responded, the way they reacted to the attack, likely that the turn on duty was a turn of turn was that on a Saturday he was aware of what was aware of what was aware of what was aware of a draw That it was what was an attack, which was aware of what was aware of what was aware of what aware, was a turvent that attacked, a Turvte Turvation turtle, with Beeto, thorny, grin, accumulated, attacked, murder. “
Abedi was transferred to HMP Frankland after carrying out an earlier attack against prison officers in Belmmarsh prison in 2020, so three years and 10 months were added to his sentence.
Abedi was a sentence at a minimum record of 55 years in prison for planning and preparation of the Manchester sand attack in 2017 along with his brother, the suicide terrorist Salman Abedi.
He was in Libya when the place of the explosion toke and then was extradited to the United Kingdom to face the trial.
Abedi was convicted of 22 positions of murder, attempted murder and conspiracy to cause an explosion that probably endangers life in 2020.
The Frankland separation center is now a crime scene. Bone has been emptied and is the subject of onboing anti -terrorism investigation into the attack.
Abedi himself has been transferred to London’s high security Belmarsh prison, while the other six prisoners have been transferred to HMP Woodhill, a source told the BBC.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer spokesman said he was “of course something terrible” how Abedi was handled.
Meanwhile, the Secretary of Justice of the Shadows, Robert Jenrick, described the attack as “extreme on”, and suggested that he questioned “the capacity of prison leadership to contain the threat of Islamist extremist inmates.”
“This deeply serious security failure must be a turning point,” he said.
Additional reports from Anna Lamche.
