JAIL RIOTS SPREAD AS INMATES ARE RELOCATED

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More than 160 inmates have been moved to other prisons after a third consecutive night of rioting at a South Yorkshire jail.

Disturbances at the Moorlands Young Offenders Institution near Doncaster spread to an adult unit on Thursday night.

Additional staff were being sent to Moorlands to "ensure stability", the Prison Service said.

One prisoner was taken to hospital after being seriously injured during almost seven hours of riots.

Up to 100 adult inmates started throwing objects and causing damage on the wing at 6.30pm.

Police response teams were called in and all prisoners had surrendered shortly before 1.30am, the Prison Service said.

A spokeswoman said a houseblock was damaged during the trouble but damage to individual cells was not considered serious.

A total of 166 prisoners were transferred from Moorland to other prisons across the country, in addition to the 86 who were moved on Thursday after the previous night's riot.

The Prison Service says a high-level investigation into the riots has begun 

"We have deployed additional staff today to Moorland to ensure stability at the prison," he said.

"We have a good record of maintaining order and security in our prisons and are therefore taking these incidents extremely seriously in order to learn lessons."

Tom Robson, acting national chairman of the Prison Officers Association (POA), said the violence early in the week was caused by "street corner gangs gathering inside our prisons".

"They continue in the only way they know, which is in a violent and anti-social manner that our members confront and manage on a daily basis," he said.

SKYNEWS