A prisoner has died and two others were critically injured in a stabbing at HMP Pentonville, leading to claims the prison system is in a "dark place".
Jamal Mahmoud, 21, died at the London prison on Tuesday. Two prisoners, aged 34 and 26, have been arrested on suspicion of murder.
BBC World News understands the weapon used was a "hunting-style knife".
The motive is not yet clear, although claims about a dispute between gangs or drugs debts are being investigated.
It is understood the stabbings happened in a prison wing and inmates were then moved into the jail's exercise yard, according to the BBC's Home Affairs Correspondent Danny Shaw.
He said a prison source had told the BBC the knife used in the attack had been recovered, and described it as "bigger than a Bowie knife but smaller than a machete".
The weapon was not improvised, the source said.
Mahmoud was attacked on the fifth floor landing of one of the prison wings, before being thrown over the railings, falling about 30ft (nine metres).
Mahmoud, from Enfield in north London, was jailed in July for helping to hide a machine gun.
A friend of the dead man, Danny Rynne, a scaffolder from Enfield, described him as "small" and "placid".
"He's got a girlfriend who's just had a baby that was born two weeks ago. It's a shame what happened. I don't know too much about what it's about but it's a shock to everyone," Mr Rynne said.
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The Prison Governors Association (PGA) said inmates at Pentonville were living in "squalid and brutal conditions".
"If a society is judged by how it treats those it locks up, then we are in a very dark place," it said.
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