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.

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B-Wing at HMP Liverpool, also known as Walton Prison (Picture: Colin McPherson/Corbis via Getty Images) Prison are close to running out of room because ... after the UK’s prison system came ...

The UK’s prison overcrowding crisis has been fuelled by politicians‘ attempts to seem “tough on crime”, a major government review has found. David Gauke, the former Conservative lord chancellor ...