Male prisons are running out of space as just 100 spaces are left, the Ministry of Justice has confirmed. The prison system is already in the midst of an overcrowding crisis, not least after the activation of Operation Early Dawn, where defendants in active court cases are kept in police cells until standard prison spaces open up. And arrests from country-wide riots and Notting Hill Carnival have soared into the hundreds over recent days and weeks. The Prime Minister noted yesterday how the Government had to check the number of free prison spaces each day in the wake of the riots to “make sure…
