Richard
Burgon MP, Labour’s Shadow Justice Secretary, commenting on Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of
Prisons’ report on Birmingham prison which is published tomorrow, said:
“As
the evidence of the Conservative-created crisis in our prisons continues to
mount, the Queen’s Speech shows the Government has given up trying to sort out
their mess.
"The
Justice Secretary must deal with the epidemic of violence, drugs, overcrowding
and understaffing, which was left to fester over the election campaign. To help
get a grip of the situation, Labour would recruit 3,000 prisons officers.”
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