Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Mick Rolfe, chairman of the Prison Officers Association, said Swaleside Prison was a "difficult place to work"

BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said the disturbance had been contained but prisoners had refused to go back into their cells. Image copyright SWNS Image caption Inmates have taken over part of a wing inside the jail from where this picture is believed to have been sent

Sixty prisoners have taken control of part of a wing at a prison in Kent. The Prison Officers Association (POA) said there was an "ongoing disturbance" at the category B training prison, HMP Swaleside, on the Isle of Sheppey. POA chairman Mike Rolfe said the extent of the disturbance was unclear, but it did not appear to be on the scale of a riot at HMP Birmingham last week. Unrest at HMP Swaleside involving 60 inmates has now been isolated to one landing in the prison's A wing, after specialist riot officers were called in, the Prison Officers Association has confirmed. It added that the incident has been contained to a landing on a single wing and the rest of the prison is secure, with inmates safely locked away. The scene at HMP Swaleside on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent where a disturbance is under way

This summer a damning official report branded the prison "dangerous" and found levels of violence were "far too high".
As many as 80 inmates take over a section of HM Prison Swaleside on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent.