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Prison overcrowding leading to gross deterioration of conditions - Howarth
22 July 2008


Mr David Ross Howarth

Commenting on a report into Doncaster prison, which found that inmates had been forced to sleep in toilets to deal with overcrowding, Liberal Democrat Justice Spokesperson, David Howarth said:

"As the Liberal Democrats have said for many months, the overcrowding crisis is now leading to a gross deterioration of conditions for prisoners.

"In the long term this will lead to less effective rehabilitation of prisoners and more crime.

"The Government’s policy of mass incarceration coupled with ministers’ failure to introduce effective community penalties is clearly having a disastrous effect on the whole prison system."


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