The UK government is releasing hundreds of prisoners early across England and Wales in a bid to ease jail overcrowding, according to live Guardian coverage.
About 700 offenders are being freed from prisons across England and Wales as the government moves to ease overcrowding.
The Guardian reports that governors of 10 category C prisons in England and Wales have been asked to install second beds in temporary prefabricated cells built for one occupant, amid an ongoing overcrowding crisis
A hospital consultant has told the BBC's Scotcast podcast that overcrowding is forcing some accident and emergency patients to be treated in corridors and storage spaces.