Life inside the crumbling Victorian prison Boris Becker will now call home

Crumbling, overcrowded and rat-infested, Wandsworth Prison is a world away from the luxurious lifestyle Boris Becker once enjoyed.

This squalid 170-year-old Victorian edifice, crammed with more than 1,300 inmates, is regularly described as one of the UK’s worst jails.

A report this year by Charlie Taylor, Chief Inspector of Prisons, revealed a jail blighted by drug abuse and mental health problems, where ‘desperately bored’ inmates spend more than 22 hours a day in dilapidated cells.

One group of inmates was described as walking ‘blinking into the sunlight’ after more than a week indoors.

Violence is an acute problem, with almost one attack every day among inmates in 2020/21. Prison staff used force 1,295 times during the same period, or nearly four times a day.

This is the bleak…