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‘We have a prison system like Asia’: Corrections sources speak about the dangers of Holtze prison overcrowding

‘We have a prison system like Asia’: Corrections sources speak about the dangers of Holtze prison overcrowding

A Holtze prison corrections officer who lost an eye after having a crutch thrown at him was working alone at the time he was attacked by a prisoner who had not been properly classified for his threat risk, part of a wider problem of overcrowding and understaffing, prison insiders have said, but the Corrections Department insists prisoners are being properly classified.

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