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Rats, overcrowding and riot warnings — my day inside a London jail
Britain’s prisons are “on the precipice of failure”, with warnings that jails could run out of space within days. As authorities beg political leaders to fix the crisis before it’s too late, Katie Strick spends a day on the frontline