The Home Office announced in January 2007 (http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,,1997589,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1) that it had reopened a prison wing that had been condemned as unfit for human inhabitation less than a week before to ease overcrowding and to house remand prisoners. Surely being a remand prisoner means that you have yet to be found guilty, in which case do these people necessarily deserve to be housed in squalor? And will this open the floodgates for prisoners demanding compensation because their human rights have been abused?
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