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Dan Peters 05 September 2024

Council information call ahead of early prisoner release

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Councils have called for more information as the Government prepares to ‘temporarily' reduce the proportion of some sentences served amid capacity pressures on jails.

Justice secretary Shabana Mahmood has said that up to 5,500 inmates will be released in two waves, on 10 September and 22 October.

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