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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Andy Gregory

What does the sentencing review mean for prisons as chemical castration considered for sex offenders

The prison population has been on the brink of capacity in recent months (Anthony Devlin/PA) - (PA Wire)

The government has been urged to make the biggest reforms to the justice system in decades, in a major new review of how criminals should be sentenced and jailed.

The long-awaited sentencing review by former Tory justice secretary David Gauke – commissioned by Labour’s Shabana Mahmood in her first weeks in office as the prisons crisis reached boiling point – was published on Thursday.

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