Thunt's attempt in a British prison for foreigners

In the southeast of England in the Meidstone prison on Saturday, a riot of 180 prisoners occurred. This was reported by Reuters and Sky News television channel with reference to the representative of the Prisoner Trade Union.

Representatives of the authorities confirmed that in one of the wings of the prison there was an incident, as a result of which additional forces of the prison guard had to be pulled there. The press secretary of the County Police said that law enforcement agencies were not involved in suppressing the attempt of the uprising. The BBC company informed that two ambulances arrived at the prison, but they did not require their participation.

According to the representative of the Association of Prisoners, "as he put it," agreed actions to violate the discipline of foreign prisoners. " "With the development of events, their actions began to resemble a rebellion," he said.

Officially, the penitentiary service has not yet commented on this information.

The BBC said that the prisoners were dissatisfied with the fact that their conditions of detention worsened as a result of a recent reduction in prison personnel. In particular, the prisoners felt that they were sitting locked in their cages for too long, BBC said.

On the prison website, it is described as a correctional institution for foreign prisoners. It is said that there were 600 prisoners in prison as of May 2009.