many are now surrounded by as many as three fences some electrified movements of inmates and staff are supposed to be carefully monitored and controlled by cctv and access control mechanisms we can have as many risk assessments as we want but these mechanisms will only improve security and prevent escapes if they work properly and if we have trained people to operate them in many centres the turnstiles that should be electronically operated are now only padlocked either because they don’t work or they haven’t got staff to operate them