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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Martin Bentham

Watchdogs raise monitoring concerns as up to 120 jailed extremists set to be released over the next year

The looming release of as many as 120 jailed extremists over the next year will place an “unsustainable” burden on the current system for protecting the public from the threat they pose, an official report warned on Thursday.

The report, by the chief inspectors of probation, constabulary and prisons, says that “several” offenders given "lengthy sentences" for terrorist offences years ago are among those approaching release.

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