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Prison numbers reach record high
By BBC News
Published: 05/25/2007

GREAT BRITAIN - Numbers reached 80,812 - up 154 on last week which leaves just 320 spare places including those in police cells under "Operation Safeguard".

Responsibility for prisons has passed to the new Ministry of Justice, which has announced plans to reduce numbers.

Minister David Hanson told the BBC: "People are inside more because we're protecting the public." Read more.

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