政府研究所：2025年英格兰和威尔士监狱危机的内部情况报告（英文版）

The prison system in England and Wales is in an extremely poor state. Levels of violence, self-harm and drug use are shockingly high, prisoners’ work and education opportunities severely limited. Buildings are crumbling or in severe disrepair, many dangerously so, and physical conditions often unsanitary.1,2 Inexperienced staff are struggling to cope with these increasingly fraught circumstances. The failure of successive governments since at least the early 2000s to expand the number of plac