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More prisons to be built to relieve overcrowding

China Daily | Updated: 2007-12-06 06:45

Britain's Justice Secretary Jack Straw said yesterday the government would spend 1.2 billion pounds ($2.4 bn) to create 10,500 extra jail places by 2014 to help tackle a crisis of overcrowding in prisons.

He said this would increase jail capacity to 96,000 places from around 81,500 now.

Reporting on a review of prisons by life peer Lord Carter, Straw said the government would close some older jails and build up to three large prisons housing up to 2,500 inmates each.

More prisons to be built to relieve overcrowding

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