A prison clothes cock-up has left cons in very tight spots.
Hundreds of lags are having to wear small tops because not enough larger sizes were ordered.
The snug shirts make some prisoners look like Tour de France cyclists but not all lags at category C Onley jail, Warwicks, have seen the funny side of the blunder.
The error emerged when some inmates collected their kit and were stunned to find no medium, large or extra large tops.
The cons who managed to get their hands on roomier gear were not risking taking it to laundry in case they never got it back.
A prison source said: “Some of our men are far from a small – and not to be messed with.
"Some people don’t take kindly to being squeezed into a small.
"They look like they are doing the Tour de France.”
The source added: “It might sound silly but some fail to see the funny side in a situation like this.”
Inspectors from watchdog the Independent Monitoring Board discovered the problem on a visit to Onley.
They called a lack of availability of basic prison-issue clothing such as medium and large-sized T-shirts “completely unacceptable”.
Now the jail has been ordered to fix the clobber supply.
The bungle comes to light just weeks after the Sunday People told how underpant shortages at HMP Nottingham meant cons had to make a single pair last seven days.
