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Evening Standard
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Anahita Hossein-Pour

Tagging criminals in prison to be trialled to close ‘surveillance gap’

Tagging offenders in prison before they are released will be trialled over six months (Ministry of Justice/PA) -

Criminals will be tagged in prison before they are released in a trial to end a “surveillance gap” as ministers seek to monitor thousands more offenders as part of sentencing reforms.

Legislation to tackle jail overcrowding was introduced to Parliament on Tuesday after ministers accepted a raft of recommendations from the independent sentencing review earlier this year.

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