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The Minister of Justice has a dismal job these days, and prison overcrowding is probably the most dispiriting issue to land in his in-tray. Yesterday the screw was turned: the leader of the Prison Governors’ Association warned Alex Chalk that the men’s prison estate was essentially full, and that women’s prisons were not far behind.
Only 12 people have escaped prison walls over the past 10 years - a quarter of them from HMP Wandsworth where Daniel Khalife made a dramatic exit from on Wednesday morning.
No, not as a guest role in Law & Order.
California Democrats previously pushed for five more prison closures by 2027.
Russian jails were already struggling thanks to long investigations and an arrest bias. But the conflict in Ukraine has made a bad situation worse in detention centers around the country, with so-called Ukrainian "spies and traitors" locked up without trial.