From the archive: ‘If you decide to cut staff, people die’: how Nottingham prison descended into chaos – podcast | Prisons and probation

We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.

This week, from 2022: as violence, drug use and suicide at HMP Nottingham reached shocking new levels, the prison became a symbol of a system crumbling into crisis

By Isobel Thompson. Read by Simon Darwen