All the following reports relate to the same prison which saw four prison guards cleared in relation to 23 year-old Michael Bailey from Birmingham.
Four guards cleared of jail death
2nd April 2007
Four prison officers charged over the death of an inmate have been cleared. Michael Bailey, 23, from Birmingham , was found dead at Rye Hill prison on the border of Warwickshire and Northamptonshire in March 2005.
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Private prison corruption exposed
16th April 2007
In Panorama, to be screened today, an undercover BBC reporter went into the privately run Rye Hill prison in Warwickshire, to expose corruption and intimidation at the prison where two men have taken their own lives in the last two years. Read more >
Home Office promises review after private prison exposé
16th April 2007
The Home Office has pledged to review the management of a privately run prison where an investigation by Guardian Films and the BBC uncovered routine bullying of staff by prisoners at the jail. Read more >
Drugs, bribe offers, staff in fear: life at Rye Hill jail
16th April 2007
Alone with an inmate on a wing of a private jail, an undercover reporter in his first weeks on duty as a prison officer is given a very surprising offer. The prisoner leaves him in no doubt that he is in a position to pay him double his normal weekly wage if he will act as a drugs courier.
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