Good morning. Here’s a sentence you might have written for most of the last 30 years: prisons are in crisis.
Even against that standard, the current level of overcrowding, decay, and staff shortages appears to set a new bar. Yesterday, the Guardian’s Rajeev Syal revealed that prison governors have been warned jails will be so overcrowded by the middle of July that they will struggle to accept any new inmates – a huge problem for an incoming justice secretary after the election.
