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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
David Lynch

More emergency measures to cut jail overcrowding before ‘zero capacity’ reached

The Justice Secretary has announced more emergency measures to curb prison overcrowding as she warned jails are on track to be down to “zero capacity” by November.

Shabana Mahmood unveiled changes to prison recall on Wednesday, with criminals serving between one and four years of jail time being returned to custody only for “a fixed 28-day period”.

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