HMP Wakefield is considered Britain’s toughest jail housing 600 of Britain’s most notorious criminals.

The roll call at the maximum-security prison – dubbed “monster mansion” – reads like a who’s who of horrific recent crime.

Current inmates are believed to include Charles Bronson, Ian Watkins, Mark Bridger, Sidney Cooke, Levi Bellfield, Stuart Hazell and Roy Whiting.

Reported by the Daily Mirror. You can read the full story here. 

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