The report found that a small number of prisons still relied on night sanitation systems, requiring prisoners to be unlocked one at a time to use toilets at night, and often resorting to buckets or bags in their cells instead.
In many jails, in-cell toilets sat next to prisoners’ beds, were broken, lacked lids, and offered little privacy.
The report found that shower facilities were “frequently in poor condition”, with mould, damaged cubicles and inadequate screening common in older accommodation.
Only 49 per cent of prisoners held in Victorian and pre-1930s buildings described communal showers as clean, compared with 88 per cent in more modern, temporary units.
