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700 inmates doubled up in single cells at Doncaster prison, inspectors find

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Chief inspector criticises ‘sophistry’ of claims jails are under nominal capacity

Inspectors discovered that 700 prisoners were doubling up in cells designed to hold one person at a “badly overcrowded” private jail in South Yorkshire where five inmates took their own lives in the space of a year.

Widespread drug use, self-harm and “worrying” levels of violence were also found at Doncaster prison, a report from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons says.

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