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| Early release for 16,000 prisoners |
| By Guardian Unlimited |
| Published: 01/31/2008 |
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UNITED KINGDOM - More than 16,000 prisoners have been freed early - including 3,000 guilty of violent crimes - under a government scheme to cut jail overcrowding, the justice ministry revealed today. The figures were released as the justice secretary, Jack Straw, announced a new package of reforms aimed at cutting prisoner numbers and confirmed he would press ahead with the construction of three "Titan" jails to create 7,500 extra prison places by 2014. Prisoners on the early release scheme committed 301 crimes between its introduction last June and December. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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