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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Rachael Burford,Matt Watts and Jacob Phillips

More inmates to be released early to cut prison overcrowding as jails set to be full by November

More than a thousand inmates will be released early to free up spaces in prisons as part of measures to tackle the overcrowding crisis.

Under the urgent action, offenders serving one to four years who are recalled to prison for breaching their licences, will be released after 28 days.

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