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►By Liu Chenghui of Observer.com

There are too few prisons but too many people have been arrested, so the British government has started a "queue for prison". According to a Reuters report on August 19, the recent large-scale anti-immigration riots in the UK have led to the arrest of more than a thousand people, triggering a capacity crisis in British prisons. For this reason, the police have to take emergency measures to temporarily detain suspects in police detention rooms until there are extra places in the prison. Last month, the British government also proposed to ease the problem of prison overcrowding by releasing some prisoners early.

The British government's prison minister, James Timpson, said in a statement on the 19th local time that the number of people arrested in this round of anti-immigrant riots in the UK has exceeded 1,100, further exacerbating the crisis of prison overcrowding. Until more than 100 prisons across the UK vacate their cells, the suspects will be held in police detention cells and will not be summoned to appear in court.

"We inherited a justice system that was in crisis and facing disruption," Timpson said. "As a result, we were forced to make difficult but necessary decisions to keep the system running."

Reuters believes that the new measure is expected to ease the problem of prison overcrowding in northern England.