Suicide, self-harm, stabbings and riots – prisons reach crisis point

Anger boiling over as prisoners confined to cells 23 hours a day due to staff shortages and 2016 sees highest number of prisoner suicidesA dozen of the country’s jails now have such chronic staff shortages they are having to draft in officers from other prisons to help maintain order.The staff shortage has forced some jails into locking prisoners in their cells for extended periods, especially at weekends. Anger at the time they were spending in their cells was cited as a major factor behi