POLICE were called by prison guards following an alleged fight between two 19-year-old inmates at Hindley Prison in Bickershaw.
One prisoner was tied to a chair by his hands and ankles. He received slashes to his face and chest and was treated in the prison hospital following the incident on Sunday evening in the young offenders' wing. An investigation has been launched. at the prison on Gibson Street.
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