Built from recycled materials, it was lauded as the £253 million 'prison of the future' with inmates called 'residents', student-hall style rooms with en-suites and no bars on windows.
But an investigation into HMP Five Wells dubbed 'HMP Woke' has revealed that the three-year-old state-of-the-art jail has been overrun by violent rapists and child abusers - who are preying on the white collar criminals they vastly outnumber.
While sex offenders are usually segregated from the general prison population because they're the ones at risk of violence, HMP Five Wells in Wellingborough - where 1,206 of the the 1,717 inmates are there for sex crimes - has implemented a scheme to integrate inmates in all parts of the prison.
One former inmate told the BBC that since the integration, and the increase in the number of sex offenders at the Northamptonshire jail, which housed just one block in 2017, conditions have deteriorated rapidly.
The sayd: 'There are people getting slashed, getting beat up, they're getting violated sexually,' one former inmate claimed.
