A prisoner has died just 48 hours after arriving at HMP Liverpool making his death the jail’s third in the last four weeks.
Damien Anderson, 40, was found unresponsive in his cell and despite efforts to save him, he was pronounced dead.
It follows the deaths of prisoners Ian Galtress, 47, earlier this month and Paul Jones, 36, who died on September 26.
Today, a source revealed officers at the category A jail were "at the end of their tether" with conditions in the prison and described the conditions as "unsafe", reports the Liverpool Echo.
And it comes days after the Mirror exposed fight clubs, Spice zombies and brutal beatings happening inside UK jails – including HMP Liverpool.
The source said: "Something needs to be done – the prison is so short staffed. The more this is exposed the better.
"It’s a horrible place. There’s so many people with mental health problems."
The Ministry of Justice has launched an investigation which will be completed by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman(PPO).
It will be the latest PPO probe into deaths at the jail, which was the subject of a shocking inspection report ten months ago which unearthed how at least seven men are believed to have taken their own lives in the past three years.
Today, a Prison Service spokesman said: "HMP Liverpool prisoner Damien Anderson died in prison on 24 October 2018.
"Our thoughts are with his family and friends.
"His next of kin have been informed.
“As with all deaths in custody there will be an independent investigation by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman.”
Figures released by the Ministry of Justice in July 2017 revealed 14 inmates have died at Liverpool Prison over the last two years.
In January, a former inspector described it "Britain’s worst jail".
Rats and cockroaches were rife, with one area of the jail so dirty, infested and hazardous it could not be cleaned, it was revealed.
During an unannounced visit last September, prison inspectors found inmates living in "squalid conditions" with exposed electrical wiring and filthy, leaking lavatories.
Their damning report blamed prison managers for an "abject failure… to offer a safe, decent and purposeful environment" with only a quarter of recommendations made by inspectors in 2015 having been fully achieved.
The former governor, Peter Francis, was removed within days of the inspection, and a former officer at the jail, Pia Sinha, was appointed as his replacement.
In footage exclusively obtained by the Mirror, it shows a drugged-up lag inside HMP Liverpool being doused by a fellow inmate.
A shirtless, tattooed inmate can be seen being given Spice in a yellow pipe.
He appears to zone out within just a few seconds and is led towards chairs before flopping to the floor.
A masked lag – in grey prison tracksuit – pulls down the man’s shorts.
One giggling inmate in the room says: “This is what you get, the consequences of smoking Spice.”
The prisoner is subjected to humiliating abuse, then a bucket of water is thrown over him – and he wakes.
The video also features incidents from inside various other jails in the UK.
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