Mr Barkham added with the clock running continually throughout he would have to limit his food and drink intake.
The Prison Officers' Association (POA) said it was the "latest in a long line of violent incidents in our prisons" and was of such a nature that it demanded a response from the NTRG.The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said no prisoners or staff were injured at the jail in Nottinghamshire.
Lowdham Grange, a category B prison, operated privately until December 2023, when the government took over before making the move permanent in the summer of 2024.The POA has demanded an urgent meeting with Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood to discuss how those on the front line are protected, said Geoff Willetts, from the POA national executive committee.He added: "There seems to be an increasing need for this group [NTRG] to be deployed due to frequent callouts to address rising prison violence and an ever increasing prison population, which brings its own demands and pressures on recruitment, retention and the training of staff, all of which is paramount to delivering a safe regime.
"All prison officers need to be issued with effective PPE [personal protective equipment], including stab vests, we need to end overcrowding and understaffing, and we need the support of management to enforce a prison regime that is safe for all who work in it and the prisoners we look after."Prisons minister Lord James Timpson added: "Prison staff rapidly resolved this incident, and I would like to pay tribute to them for doing so.
"But this is another sign of the problems we are facing in our prisons, with prisons that are overcrowded and violent.
"This government is gripping the crisis we inherited.in January, condemned Trump's calls for the US to take back the Panama Canal, to acquire Greenland and to make Canada the 51st state.
"What the hell's going on here? What president ever talks like that? That's not who we are," Biden told the BBC's Nick Robinson."We're about freedom, democracy, opportunity, not about confiscation."
Greenland, the world's largest island, has been controlled by Denmark for about 300 years. The island governs its own domestic affairs, but foreign and defence policy decisions are made in Copenhagen.The US has long had a security interest in the island. It has had a military base there since World War Two, and Trump may also have an interest in the rare earth minerals that could be mined.