PRISONERS in the North-east have racked up almost 3,000 complaints over the past five years, the Evening Express can reveal today.

Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that since 2009, prisoners at HMP Aberdeen and Peterhead made 2,953 complaints.

Topics of the complaints ranged from food and work, to privileges and recreation.

Reported by the Evening Express. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
http://www.mattburgess.co
I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.