questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has assessed the potential impact of prison overcrowding on staff safety.
answerText: Ministry of Justice research on crowding and violence in the adult closed estate in 2022 shows that prisoners in overcrowded cells are 19% more likely to be involved in an assault over a one-year period than those in cells that are not overcrowded.The det...
heading: Prisons: Overcrowding