Prison conditions are as bad as they were at the time of the Strangeways riots 25 years ago, a former lord chief justice has warned.
Lord Woolf - who led the inquiry into trouble at the Manchester jail - said the system is in crisis again and called for an investigation into the state of Britain's prisons.
Lord Woolf, previously England's most senior judge, said: "There are things that are better now than then but I fear we've allowed ourselves to go backwards and we're back where we were at the time of Strangeways.
"For a time after the riot things were much better and numbers were going down.
Unfortunately prisoners are again being kept in conditions that we should not tolerate, they're a long way from home and their families can't keep in touch with them - a whole gamut of things that need to be done and that's why I would welcome a thorough re-look at the situation and above all trying to take prisons out of politics."
Two people died, hundreds more were injured and much of Strangeways prison was destroyed during violence which lasted for 25 days in April 1990.
Lord Woolf's report into the disturbance was seen as a landmark moment in the history of Britain's prisons.
It identified dilapidated, overcrowded and insanitary conditions as the main underlying causes of trouble.
Lord Woolf made his latest intervention on BBC Inside Out North West, which will be broadcast tonight.
He said more needs to be done to stop prisoners from turning to crime again once they are released.
Last week a parliamentary report warned government cuts and reforms to the prisons system in England and Wales have made a "significant contribution" to a deterioration in safety over the last two years.
The cross-party House of Commons Justice Committee voiced "grave concern" over increases in assaults on staff and inmates, suicides, self-harm and indiscipline in prisons between 2012 and 2014.
Prisons Minister Andrew Selous said: "This Government has considerably increased the adult male prison capacity from the level inherited at the end of the last parliament.
"All prisons have safe population levels and published statistics show that crowding is at its lowest levels since 2007/08.
"Staffing levels were agreed with both prison governors and the unions at the outset, and prison officers have done an excellent job during a period when the prison population has unpredictably risen."
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