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Britain’s prisons overcrowded, police cells to be used as stop-gap arrangement
The British government today said, police cells will temporarily be used to hold prisoners in a stop-gap measure to cope with overcrowding in jails. The emergency action, dubbed "Operation Safeguard", allows inmates to be held in police cells when prisons are full and was previously used from Febr...