Around 10,000 cells are overcrowded with multiple prisoners crammed in them, the prisons minister has said. James Timpson admitted it’s going to take “years not months” to fix the crisis in jails in his first grilling at the Commons Justice committee on Tuesday. MPs heard that almost a quarter of the prison population are in single-person cells with more than one occupant. They were told this essentially means “someone defecates at the same place that someone eats their dinner”, while shower