Two thirds of prisons officially overcrowded in England and Wales

Two-thirds of prisons in England and Wales are officially overcrowded, with HMP Wandsworth holding more extra prisoners than any other jail despite the alleged escape of a terror suspect last month. In September there were 663 more men in Wandsworth than the 950 the south London prison has “good, decent” accommodation for, under the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) definition. That means prisoners sharing cells designed for one, often with a toilet in the middle shielded by a curtain. Normally when a prison is in crisis – for example, suffering a high-profile escape or scathing inspection report, both of which happened at Wandsworth in the space of the past six weeks – the Prison Service will move inmates to other jails to ease pressure. But on the last Friday in September, three weeks after Daniel Khalife allegedly escaped from Wandsworth clinging to the bottom of a food delivery truck, there were just four fewer prisoners than at the time of the escape, MoJ figures show.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/15/two-thirds-prisons-officially-overcrowded-england-wales

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