overcrowding

Due to overcrowding and unsafe conditions, he was released from detention in 2020.

They have described beatings, severe overcrowding, insufficient medical care, scabies outbreaks, and poor sanitary conditions.

There is already a review of the sentencing system under way, led by former Conservative justice secretary David Gauke and aimed tackling prison overcrowding.

The plans hope to alleviate overcrowding and improve accessibility for those with reduced mobility, TfW said.

The government released certain offenders early last year to ease overcrowding in prisons.