Violence, self-harm and drugs: Shock new figures lay bare crisis facing Britain’s prisons
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Ministry of Justice (MoJ) figures on Thursday laid bare the scale of the chaos in UK prisons, days after the justice secretary announced emergency measures to ease the crisis