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11/12/24 - 'UK can't build its way out of prisons crisis'

Justice Secretary tells Today prisons will run out of space, and Nick visits HMP Stocken.

The Justice Secretary tells the Today programme that you cannot build your way out of the prison crisis. Even with plans to create 14,000 more prison places in England and Wales, Shabana Mahmood says that jails will still be full in three years. Nick Robinson visits one model prison - HMP Stocken - with the Justice Secretary.
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