Exclusive: shock figures reveal state of UK’s brutal prisons

HMP Liverpool showed signs of overcrowding, as did Bristol, Guys Marsh, Nottingham and Wormwood Scrubs prisons.The scale of the crisis engulfing Britain’s prisons can be revealed, after an Observer investigation found that two-thirds are providing inmates with inadequate conditions or unacceptable treatment.Rory Stewart, the prisons minister, described the state of some jails as “deeply disturbing”.