The Ministry of Justice is requesting the emergency use of 400 police cells after running out of prison places.
Overcrowding in the prison system is ‘more evidence that we can no longer afford the cost of the Conservatives’.
‘While we find ourselves in a satiation with not enough cells, in response to a recent parliamentary question we discovered that over the last five years the Tories have spent over £1 million on maintaining closed prisons.The surge in prison overcrowding is the ‘first time ever’ such a rapid increase has happened, a minister said.
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