FoI request reveals number of inmates in England and Wales kept in conditions criticised by UN expert
- Complete removal of hope’: an inmate on life in a close supervision centre
Fifty-two people are being held in prison units in England and Wales in conditions that a UN human rights expert has said may amount to torture, the Guardian has learned.
Close supervision centres (CSC) hold some of the most dangerous men in the prison system in small, highly supervised units within high-security jails in conditions previously described by the prisons inspector as “the most restrictive … with limited stimuli and human contact”.
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