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3/4. Strangeways. On 1 April, 1990, a riot broke out in the chapel at Strangeways prison in Manchester. Within minutes, the inmates had control of the whole jail and began a siege that would last for 25 days. The then prison governor, prison officers, inmates and the Home
Secretary of the day talk to Liz Carney about the worst prison riot in the history of the British penal system. Producer Isobel Eaton

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Liz Carney
Producer:
Isobel Eaton
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