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| Subject: Well meaning, elderly farmer jailed with drug dealers and rapists for "damaging riverbank" Sun Apr 23, 2023 6:57 pm | |
| Even the toughest criminals dread being sent to HMP Hewell, a forbidding, red-brick prison that is hidden away in the Worcestershire countryside.
Though conditions have improved somewhat since 2019, when independent inspectors described it as 'the worst in the UK', it continues to be plagued by drug-taking and outbreaks of violence.
The shared cells, where inmates eat and sleep beside open toilets, are classed as 'inhumane'.
Many of the 1,300 or so category B prisoners are serving long sentences for offences such as arson, rape, drug-dealing and armed robbery. Lining up for breakfast with these chilling characters yesterday morning, however, was a 68-year-old farmer regarded as a pillar of his local community.
A redoubtable, third-generation landowner who supplies potatoes to one of Britain's best-known crisp manufacturers and prized beef to major supermarkets, John 'Pudge' Price is renowned in the village of Kingsland, near Leominster in Herefordshire, for his philanthropy.
.https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12005195/Should-farmer-really-sent-jail-damaging-riverbank.html
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