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Andy Gregory

Prisoners to serve shorter sentences until 2026 to avert ‘total breakdown of law and order’

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Emergency plans to cut prisoner sentence lengths to ease the overcrowding crisis and avert “a total breakdown in law and order” will last until 2026 at least, the justice secretary has announced.

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