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Prisons Overcrowding Crisis to Force Keir Starmer to Release Thousands More Prisoners Early
The crisis followed the last Conservative Government's failure to fulfil its promise to build up to 20,000 more prisons ...
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Hundreds 'stuck' on Rikers Island due to state prison dysfunction, officials said
An illegal strike by state correction officers was resolved, but its ripple effects are creating more dangerous conditions at ...
Prisons set to run out of spaces again within a year despite early release scheme, MPs warn
Many prisoner are living in ‘inhumane conditions’ and the government must act now to avert disaster, the Public Accounts ...
Prisons to overflow again by 2026 despite early release of thousands of prisoners, report finds
Prisons are set to overflow once again in 2026 despite thousands of convicts being released early, a new report has found, ...
Prisons face ‘total gridlock’ in 2026 amid failure to increase capacity – MPs
A Westminster committee said lives are being increasingly put at risk by the Government’s historic failures to increase ...
More than 50 prisoners escape from ‘overcrowded’ jail after breaking through security
More than 50 inmates in an Indonesian prison staged an escape as officers scrambled to stop them. Video showed the prisoners ...
Prison fights and violence surge as warning issued over 'pressure cooker' jails
MPs have warned the prison service is operating 'hand to mouth' as it scrambles from one crisis to another - with jails set ...
More than 50 inmates flee from overcrowded facility in Indonesia in mass prison break
At least 52 inmates escaped from an overcrowded prison in the westernmost Aceh province of Indonesia after breaking through ...
Courts 'gridlock' fears as judges to stop sending criminals to overcrowded prisons
Prisons are out of control with violence increasing and drug use rampant, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has been warned.