Female prisoners are given the morning-after pill after male inmates smashed their way into women’s section of a jail during 12-hour riot

• Birth control pills were offered to female prisoners during a jail riot last month
• Male prisoners used grinding power tools to break into female section of prison
• Justice Department revealed the pill was offered after denying sexual assault
• The prison riot is the largest jail break in in Western Australia’s history

Female inmates were given the morning-after pill after male prisoners smashed their way into the women’s section of the prison using hand-held grinding power tools during a mass jail breakout last month.

The Justice Department has revealed that the pill – used to prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex – was offered to dozens of female prisoners inside in Greenough Regional Prison, north of Perth, after a 12-hour riot.

The pills were offered despite the women saying they had not been sexually assaulted after the men broke in to the women’s section of the prison.

WA Prison Officers Union acting secretary Paul Ledingham refused to say where any sexual assaults had taken place during the break in.

Female prisoners were sexually assaulted as male inmates smashed through women’s section.

‘If you have got a situation, riotous behaviour, that goes for 10 to 12 hours in a prison under the cover of darkness where males and females are concerned, I think anyone’s imagination might lead them to think that there were things going on,’ he said.

During the riot, a female prisoner contacted Seven News using an office phone while male inmates broke into the women’s section using angle grinders and other tools.

‘Some of the girls are scared because you’ve got a whole bunch of aggro men running around,’ she told Seven News.

Male inmates used power grinding tools to smash their way into the women’s section.

The prison suffered million of dollars worth of damage after the riot (above)

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