Government urged to grant more court sitting days to tackle prison population

The Government on Wednesday published a 10-year Prison Capacity Strategy that will aim to deliver 14,000 prison places (PA) - (PA Wire)

The Government has been urged to allow more Crown Court sitting days in order to decrease the number of people jailed on remand in the prison population.

Shadow justice minister Kieran Mullan said if the request had been made of the previous Conservative government they would have “not told them no, which is what this Labour Government has done.”