Police to arrest inmates for fire in Central Prisons, Prison Union blames overcrowding

Police are moving to arrest inmates over a deliberate fire set in cells and a corridor of the high-security wing at Nicosia’s Central Prisons last night, philenews has learned.

Investigators from the Nicosia Criminal Investigation Department, working alongside Fire Service experts, visited wing 4 today, where inmates had set fire to cells and the corridor, and carried out examinations, according to philenews information. The method used to start the fire has been identified, with the...