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Exclusive: plans drawn up to ease overcrowding likety to apply to inmates serving sentence of less than four years
Thousands of prisoners are set to be released up to 18 days early under plans drawn up by ministers to ease an overcrowding crisis, the Guardian understands.
Government sources said the proposals would apply to any prisoner in England and Wales serving a sentence of less than four years, other than those facing either a standard or fixed-term recall.
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