Fresh calls have been made to end over-crowding at HMP Durham as a report finds prisoners are still forced to share cells only big enough for one.
The prison's Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) is once again urging the Government to take action as it reveals around 90 per cent of cells designed for one person are now occupied by two inmates.
And in its annual report the board highlights concerns about the lack of health checks prisoners receive on arrival, and the huge rise in the number of "unsentenced" inmates who have been at the remand prison for more than a year.
