Overcrowded prisons will face “total gridlock in a matter of months” and run out of space in 2026 despite emergency measures to release prisoners early, MPs have warned.
A damning report from the Public Accounts Committee found a “system in crisis” was leaving many prisoners living in “inhumane conditions”, adding the previous government’s plans to create 20,000 more prison places by the mid 2020s were “completely unrealistic”.
