Warnings of rioting as prison population surges

Warnings of rioting as prison population surges

The prison population is on course to hit 100,000 in four years’ time, after hitting a new record of 83,000 for the first time.

"The Prison Officers’ Association warned that suspected criminals might be going free because there are not enough cells to house them while prisons watchdog Anne Owers also said that conditions in jails were the worst she had known in eight years, with evidence of low level unrest in some prisons".

A concern I have about prison officers warning about the possibility of riots is that it is easy for them to cause riots in an attempt to prove their point.