By Alan Travis
Guardian.co.uk
Talks between senior prison service officials and the prison officers’ union are to take place next Monday following a wave of unofficial industrial action today by hundreds of prison officers in north-west England.
The talks will look at allegations of bullying and harassment by management at Liverpool prison, which led to two days of unofficial action by 200 staff.
They were joined today by 150 officers at Risley prison, near Warrington, and staff at Lancaster Castle, Lancaster Farms and the Verne prisons.
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