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Britain is releasing prisoners early. Here's how other countries avoided it | BBC News
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19:39Now PlayingThe UK's prison population today is about 86,500 and there are about 2,400 spare places. Overcrowding has caused chaos across prisons and the courts.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has now changed the incoming early release scheme for some prisoners in England and Wales, to exclude rapists and some other offenders.
So - what other solutions are there to the increasing pressure facing the system? And can the UK look for ideas from abroad?
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