MoJ requests urgent use of 400 police cells for male prisoners
by Aletha Adu and Rajeev Syal from World news | The Guardian on (#66BJ1)
Prisons minister writes to police chiefs to establish Operation Safeguard due to lack of space in men's prisons
Dominic Raab has been accused of presiding over a foolish and unrealistic" prisons policy after his department was forced to request the emergency use of 400 police cells for inmates for the first time in 14 years.
Ministers blamed the recent barristers' strike for an acute and sudden increase in the prison population" of 800 in the last two months - a claim which was challenged by charities, MPs and unions.
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