UK: jail overcrowding forces prisoners to sleep on cell floors

One of the country’s busiest prisons is so overcrowded that inmates have had to sleep on the floor in recent months.

Between April and June 44 inmates in Cloverhill prison, Dublin, were forced to sleep on mattresses on the ground in their cells.

Charlie Flanagan, the justice minister, revealed the figures in a parliamentary question to Clare Daly, the independent TD. He confirmed that figures from the Irish prison service revealed that eight prisoners slept on the floor in April, 21 in May and 15 in June.

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