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as posted by the channelCan Keir Starmer and new prisons minister James Timpson hold Britain's overflowing prison estate together?
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Thousands of prisoners will be released after serving 40% of their sentence rather than the standard 50% in September and October. And now after the riots, Labour have implemented Operation Early Dawn which means that people will be held in police cells until capacity is available in prison cells.
Hannah Barnes and George Eaton look at the crisis in prisons.
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