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How long can our prison system carry on like this?

24 August 2024

3:47 AM

24 August 2024

3:47 AM

Can the Ministry of Justice carry on without our failing prison system seizing up altogether? Today we learned that Magistrates are being urged by the Chief Judge not to send convicted offenders to prison until room can be made for them in prison cells.

After the riots last month, there are only a few hundred jail cells left for male adults nationally.

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