The reality of prison life for a woman who killed a one-year-old little girl has been laid bare in a new documentary HMP Styal: Women Behind Bars.
Viewers were taken behind the scenes of the ' mother of all prisons ' which is home to some of the most hated female killers in Britain.
The Channel 5 programme showed details of Savannah Brockhill being put under guard for her own safety, after she was convicted of murdering Star Hobson.
The Wilmslow-based prison in Cheshire is home to around 400 inmates, and has seen notorious names pass through including the likes of Laura Jeska, Farzana Ahmed, Savannah Brockhill and Baby P killer Tracey Connelly, who was recently released.
From a first glance the prison doesn't seem like your stereotypical wing - lots of prisoners are homed into houses, Yorkshire Live reports.
Journalist, Geoffery Wansell said in the documentary: "It looks a bit more like Butlins - it's a village with lots of village greens in a way - but where some monsters lie."
An inmate of Styal described the houses inside the prison as "self contained units," the prisoner, who was not named in the documentary said: "Its dormitory style, women can go to and from work and have freedom to wander around at night time.
"You work together to make the house work - it's a sense of community but very in your face.
"There are 17 girls to a house - it gets very bitchy and a lot of bullying going on from people who think they are top dog."
But the women who have committed the 'worst crimes' are separated in Styal for their own protection, the inmate added: "There is a prisoner code."
High profile cases in Styal will be put in the weight wing which is described by an inmate as a big wing with two levels and around 80 cells on each side.
She added that prisoners on the wing would be allowed out their cells for one hour a night which is when they would shower and make phone calls.
She told viewers the wing was one of the "dirtiest and disgusting" places she had ever seen.
She said: "Women are detoxing, they have mental health, there's paedos, murderers, child killers. The mattress' are full of blood, I got scabies off the mattress - there are nit combs in the showers. People are throwing up on landing.
"People had hot boiling, water and sugar poured over them."
The weight wing is recently home to Savannah Brockhill, who beat to death Star Hobson.
Brockhill publicly described herself as 'number one psycho' says journalist Geoffrey during the Channel documentary.
A fellow inmate told viewers that Brockhill had been kept apart from the other prisoners for her own protection because she would have been treated badly.
A child related crime is described as the 'worst crime' that can possibly be committed they continues - female prisoners just do not tolerate it.
The inmate, who was not named, said: "There is a prisoners code, they are seen as the lowest of the low and they are a target, especially the child killers like Savannah Brockhill."
In a phone call from inside the prison one inmates recounts how Styal's women reacted to killer Brockhill's recent arrival.
The inmate said: "Everyone was at the windows, screaming, shouting but luckily we were locked up so no one could get to her - but there are times.
"She always has four or five officers around her.
"I don't know how she can live with herself."
Ex-prison officer, Holly Daglish, dubbed Styal as the 'most challenging place I have ever worked', she said: "There was violence, self harm and emotional distress that goes along with dealing with the women.
Styal is prone to more violence either between each other or on themselves.
"I've seen one women who would insert plastic cutlery into her body, they would swallow razor blades and batteries day in day out.
"Its a dog eat dog world. One of the most challenging place I have ever worked.
"We've been covered in blood, excrement, trying to save women's lives - you don't think about yourself."
The documentary was broadcast on Channel 5 on Wednesday, August 17 and is available on catch-up.
