Prisoners at HMP Lewes complained about issues including lost property and special dietary requirements this year.

A total of 27 complaints were received from the prison and passed on to the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman.

Other gripes were about confiscated property and restrictions or delays to visits.

The information was released following a Freedom of Information request by The Argus.

Of the complaints submitted to the Ombudsman, including those over the loss of jobs for inmates and disruption to their day-to-day routine, 11 were completed.

Only three of the complaints completed were upheld.

Many of the complaints submitted were ineligible as they were not within the remit of the Ombudsman to investigate.

The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman is responsible for investigating complaints which have not been resolved by individual prisons such as HMP Lewes. 

A spokeswoman for the PPO said: “The purpose of these investigations is to understand what happened, to correct injustices and to identify learning for the organisations whose actions we oversee so that the PPO makes a significant contribution to safer, fairer custody and offender supervision.”