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Evening Standard
Politics
Nicholas Cecil

'Accept new prison' near you to tackle jail crisis, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood tells local residents

People will “have to accept” a new prison being built in their neighbourhood, says Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood given the scale of the jail crisis.

She also signalled that punishments for offenders, such as home curfew, could be increasingly used to stop so many of them going to prison.

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