Police cells will be used to hold inmates as prisons face a capacity crisis with fewer than 800 spaces left across the UK.

Police cells will temporarily be used to hold prisoners in a stop-gap measure to cope with overcrowding in jails, the British government said on Tuesday.

In 2024, the Prison Reform Trust quoted a "male prisoner" as saying: "The government policy of depriving retired prisoners of their state pension is unfair, especially to those with paid National ...

Prisoners will be temporarily held in police cells to deal with prisons running out of space, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) ...

Due to overcrowded prisons in England and Wales, the UK government reinstates 'Operation Safeguard', allowing police cells to house inmates temporarily. The prison population has doubled over 30 years ...

Police cells will temporarily be used to hold prisoners in a stop-gap measure to cope with overcrowding in jails, the United ...

A damning new report from the prison inspectors revealed disturbing levels of drug use, mental health issues and self-harm at ...

Ministers have been forced to trigger an emergency measure to house prisoners in police cells as jails run out of space. Justice secretary Shabana Mahmood has enacted Operation Safeguard, which allows ...

With fewer than 800 prison spaces left, the government will use police cells to keep up with demand. That's despite an early ...

The measure comes despite thousands of offenders being released early in September, under a scheme which was designed to tackle the overcrowding crisis until 2026 ...

The British government enacted 'Operation Safeguard' to manage prison overcrowding by holding inmates in police cells temporarily. This response follows a surge in the prison population in England and ...

The offences range from grooming and sexually manipulating girls online to trying to smuggle drugs and phones into prison as ...