Eleven hundred prisoners are being released early – as part of the Government’s emergency scheme to ease the overcrowding crisis in jails across England and Wales.
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The Prime Minister said he "shared public anger" at the sight of inmates walking free but said there was "no choice".
A wholescale review of sentencing – to be led by the former Conservative Justice secretary David Gauke – was also announced today – part of a raft of measures to avoid what the government said could be "complete paralysis" of the entire legal system.
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