A campaigner is calling for all prison staff to be provided with personal protective equipment, saying they are ‘just as important as hospital workers’.
Regan-Pia-carra Dyce, 32, says that workers at prisons across the country, including Strangeways, Styal and Forest Bank, are being put at risk by not having sufficient equipment to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
The events manager, who is currently working as an NHS first responder, is campaigning for more PPE, including face masks, gloves and cleaning products, to be supplied to prison guards and other staff members who are working during the pandemic.
As of today 12 prisoners have died after testing positive for COVID-19. One of them was a 66-year-old Strangeways prisoner who died in