A woman has claimed to offer lifts to recently released prisoners who were only just freed from the UK's most violent women's jail.
HMP Foston Hall was denounced by inspectors as the UK's most violent women's prison, but that hasn't stopped some residents in the Derby-based street opposite from giving lags lifts home.
Ex-inmates are said to have been offered a lift to the nearest train station or a taxi by locals on Coplow Lane to help them get on their way.
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But a former NHS support worker who described the inmates as "lovely" says she has been giving lifts to those recently released for years.
Janet Kersey, 55, a retired NHS support worker, has lived in the area for 22 years and said that she occasionally gives them a "lift" to a train station nearby.
Speaking to DerbyshireLive, Kersey said: "They don’t bother us. Sometimes I even give them a lift, it's awful them waiting there for an hour in the cold – the busses only come once an hour. I tend to take them to the nearest railway station in Hatton.
"Other than that, there's no trouble at all. It’s lovely.
"You have no trouble with anybody as it's only a tiny place. It’s a nice place to live, it's quiet, no trouble."
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The former NHS support worker continued: "We're actually very lucky as there are no drunken louts or drugs. Everyone has lived here a long time, 15, 20, 30 years."
Others in the area appear to agree, with one neighbour who wished to remain anonymous citing very few troubles with the area in the 20 years they have lived there.
They said: "It seems pretty obvious that a lot of the prisoners when they come out, they don’t know north from east and west. They do sometimes knock on our door and ask about buses or taxis.
"But by and large we’re fine, apart from sometimes they leave a bit of a mess at the top near the bus stop with their bags, but you'd get that with anyone – everyone can make a mess."
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