Black inmates at Wormwood Scrubs ‘disproportionately subjected to use of force’

Little action has been taken on issue at one of UK’s most notorious jails, Independent Monitoring Board says

Black prisoners are disproportionately subjected to the use of force inside one of Britain’s most notorious jails, a report has found.

The annual report of the Independent Monitoring Board, a statutory body that monitors the treatment of prisoners, found that from June 2022 to May 2023, black prisoners in Wormwood Scrubs were subjected to 43% of use-of-force incidents although they formed just 27% of the prison population.