Rishi Sunak is failing to deliver on the government’s pledge to tackle prison overcrowding as less than half of the pop-up cells promised have been built so far - and they aren’t even suitable for dangerous prisoners, The Independent can reveal.
Just 380 of the pledged 1,000 cells were installed in 2023 as part of the £12million rapid deployment cells project, one of a number of measures the government is using to try and solve the overcrowding crisis in prisons.
