I am absolutely certain that if our Home Secretary had to stand up like this and talk about UK prisons he would also be confronted by lots of tales of terrible events - drugs, rape, assaults and so on.
Most high profile offenders have been seriously assaulted in prison - that piece of filth that killed little April Jones is a recent example.
Prisons are populated by...guess who?....bad people. People so bad they have gone to prison. Hardly the shock of the century that bad people might not always treat their fellow inmate with tender concern, is it?