Nearly half of inmates are living in crowded conditions at Thameside prison, new figures show ... an extra 20,000 places as ...

The prison was "badly overcrowded with worrying levels of violence", the report said Hundreds of inmates are doubled up in single-occupancy cells at a "badly overcrowded" prison "with worrying ...

The Irish Prison Service (IPS) has been forced to deal with rising numbers of prisoners being sent to already overcrowded institutions ... that the bed or beds in a cell are taken out and replaced ...