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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Caitlin Doherty

Former justice secretary urges UK to make more use of open prisons

David Gauke (Kirsty O’Connor/PA) - (PA Archive)

The UK does not “make as much use of open prisons” as it could, a former Conservative justice minister has suggested.

David Gauke, who is leading the Government’s sentencing review, also told the Times that “we have run out of space” in prisons and there is “an opportunity” for things to change.

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