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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Michael Savage Policy editor

Three-quarters of prisons in England and Wales in appalling conditions as overcrowding fears grow

A graffiti-covered cell at HMP Liverpool in 2018
A graffiti-covered cell at HMP Liverpool in 2018. Photograph: HM Inspectorate of Prisons/PA

The vast majority of prisons are providing inadequate conditions or unacceptable treatment, according to an Observer investigation that has led to claims of prisoners being “warehoused” in a system in crisis.

An analysis of hundreds of inspections found that three-quarters of prisons in England and Wales are now providing insufficient standards in at least one respect.

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