Urgent work is taking place to restore heating at HMP Liverpool, the Ministry of Justice says.
Four years ago, inspectors found rats and cockroaches were rife in the Victorian prison, known locally as HMP Walton, with many inmates living in "squalid" conditions.
One area was deemed so dirty, infested and hazardous it could not be cleaned, while inspectors also found exposed electrical wiring and filthy, leaking toilets. In his September 2017 report, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons Peter Clarke found an "abject failure to offer a safe and decent" environment at the prison and said they were the "worst living conditions".
His January 2020 report, which followed an inspection in August and September 2019, concluded there had been a dramatic improvement at the Category B prison, which opened in 1855, but said more work needed to be done.
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