Government to Accelerate Building of Prison Places with £110m – Minister

Burnham turns prison laundries into cells in scramble for space

More cells being built within prisons to help tackle overcrowding

The government says £110m has been fast-tracked from existing budgets to speed up the building of new cells.

Andy Burnham vows largest prison building programme since Victorian era as system on brink of collapse

Andy Burnham vows largest prison building programme since Victorian era as system on brink of collapse . Andy Burnham's Government has vowed the largest prison building programme "since the Victorian era" as the whole system teeters on the brink of collapse

Government to accelerate building of prison places with £110m – minister

Alex Norris will set out plans to speed up the building of prison places as part of the Government’s efforts to tackle overcrowding.

Andy Burnham's government to accelerate building of 100 new prison places

Elsewhere, ministers have signed a contract which will pave the way for a new 1,700-place prison in Lancashire