Justice secretary mulling plans to apply early release scheme before nine-month cutoff as part of drive to reduce cost of prison populationThe justice secretary,Michael Gove, is considering the extension of a scheme to send domestic more foreign prisoners before their full sentences absorb been served. The move is one of a wide range of options being looked at to reduce the number of prisoners being held in increasingly violent jails, and which currently stands at 85000 in England and Wales.
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Source: theguardian.com