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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/inmates-warn-over-open-prison-rules.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Unsuitable offenders are being sent to open prisons, leading to disturbances like at Ford Open Prison" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-inmates-warn-over-open-prison-rules.jpg" alt="Unsuitable offenders are being sent to open prisons, leading to disturbances like at Ford Open Prison"/></a></p>
<p>Unsuitable offenders are being sent to open prisons, leading to disturbances including a recent jail riot, other inmates have warned.</p>
<p>Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live on contraband mobile phones, prisoners said rules had been relaxed allowing short-term and unsuitable criminals to spend the last part of their sentence at centres such as HMP Ford in West Sussex.</p>
<p>The open prison was the site of a rampage on New Year&#8217;s Day, with inmates smashing windows and starting fires at the complex. It is thought the violence started after guards attempted to breathalyse prisoners for contraband alcohol.</p>
<p>But on Radio 5, other offenders currently serving time said the underlying cause was the ease with which some prisoners were getting Category D classification.</p>
<p>The &#8220;low risk&#8221; status allows them to finish their sentences in open prisons.</p>
<p>One prisoner said: &#8220;I can remember many years ago it was difficult to get a Category D and go to an open prison.</p>
<p>&#8220;Now they seem to be doing it to anyone, including violent offenders. They&#8217;re not so strict.&#8221;</p>
<p>An open prison inmate said: &#8220;The problem is that when shorter term prisoners come here they don&#8217;t have anything to lose really, and start to erupt.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mark Freeman, acting secretary general of the Prison Officers Association, told Radio 5 Live: &#8220;People on three to four month sentences spend a week in a Category B jail and then are down in an open prison for the rest of their sentence.</p>
<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re only in proper jails a week, so it&#8217;s not hard to keep your nose clean a week. These people should not be in open prisons.&#8221;</p>
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