HMP Parc: Director steps down at prison where 10 inmates died

“Will has over 30 years’ experience in the prison service having led a number of large, complex prisons, both public and private and served four years as a prison group director for the long term and high security estate,” a spokesperson for HMP Parc said in a statement.

At least four of the deaths are believed to be drug-related, while one prison staff member has been arrested in connection with drug dealing there.

South Wales Police said in March that a Nitazene – a synthetic opioid drug – had been identified in connection with all four deaths.

The force said spice, another synthetic drug, had been identified in two of the four deaths.

G4S has previously said it has a “zero-tolerance policy towards drugs”.

Families of inmates who died while in a prison protested outside the facility last month, saying they wanted answers from authorities following claims of drug misuse within the jail.

HMP Parc is one of the UK’s largest category B prisons, holding convicted male adult and young offenders, as well as convicted sex offenders or those awaiting trial for sex offences.