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More cells being built within prisons to help tackle overcrowding

The government says £110m has been fast-tracked from existing budgets to speed up the building of new cells.

More cells being built within prisons to help tackle overcrowding
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Pressivio’s Politics desk has added the source report “More cells being built within prisons to help tackle overcrowding” to its international monitoring stream.

The government says £110m has been fast-tracked from existing budgets to speed up the building of new cells.

Original source: BBC Politics
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