It get's noticed if prisons are overcrowded and say 3 people are sharing a 2 person cell etc but what about all the people in council type accommodation that are also over crowded, my friend has a tiny 1 bedroom flat that her, her fiance (will be her hubby next month!!) and her now 18 month old daughter all share. I think that's wrong, overcrowded and they are told they are on a waiting list for a 2 bedroom place but that it might take a fair while yet. Now they are a lovely, law abiding family just very short on income etc and can't be re-housed despite their overcrowding yet prisoners who might be inside for anything from robbery to murder are given all affordable luxuries and their own private space as is considered necessary and appropriate. Seems a little ironic to me really.