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Care behind bars: nursing in the UK’s largest prison

With a burgeoning population and chronic staff shortages, UK prisons are in crisis. Nursing staff caring for inmates at HMP Wandsworth in south London are frank about the problems - but insist it is great place to be a nurse.     
Posted 10 December 2016 - 12:02
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