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Government details latest move to tackle prison overcrowding

The government has this morning announced emergency measures to ease prison overcrowding by re-activating Operation Early Dawn. Through this mechanism, offenders will be summoned to a magistrates’ court only when it is confirmed that a cell in the prison estate is ready for them, should they then be remanded into custody. Instead they will be… Read more »