Leaked emails reveal plans to ‘double up’ prisoners in one-person prefab cells

Exclusive: Ten category C prisons in England and Wales asked to add second beds, which will breach safe occupancy limits

The Prison Service has drawn up plans to “double up” hundreds of prisoners in temporary prefabricated cells built for one person, , at the request of the Ministry of Justice, leaked documents show.

Amid an ongoing overcrowding crisis in England and Wales, governors of 10 category C prisons have been asked to sign off the installation of second beds in “rapid deployment cells [RDCs]”.

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