Multiple prisoners are being locked in single cells for up to 23 hours a day as overcrowding ravages the prison system, a damning report revealed today.
In his annual review, HM Prisons Inspector Charlie Taylor warned violence levels were too high in men’s and youth prisons, while women’s prisons had "staggeringly high levels of self-harm".
He revealed just one out of 37 men’s prisons was rated good in the last year, with the other 36 rated insufficiently good or poor.
