Russell Brand Taken to 1,466-Inmate Wandsworth Prison After 10-Plus-Year Rape Sentence
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Updated · The New York Times · Nov 10
Russell Brand Taken to 1,466-Inmate Wandsworth Prison After 10-Plus-Year Rape Sentence
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Nov 10
Summary
Guards took Russell Brand to south London’s Wandsworth Prison after he was sentenced to more than 10 years for rape and sexual assault.
Wandsworth’s latest monitoring report described “unsafe, overcrowded, unsanitary and squalid” conditions, with 360 prisoner-on-prisoner assaults over the past year and inmates sometimes locked in cells up to 22 hours a day.
Lawyer Rikki Garg said high-profile inmates are usually placed first in a single cell and may have contact only with a small group of vetted low-risk prisoners because of attack risks.
In the coming weeks, a risk assessment board is expected to decide Brand’s longer-term prison category and whether he should be moved, with transfers dependent on cell availability.
Britain’s strained prison system could still see him shifted again later in his sentence, including to a specialist sex-offender prison such as Whatton, an 800-plus-capacity facility inspectors recently said was well run.