Summary
CHARLES CLARKE is to take desperate steps to ease jail overcrowding after blaming the crisis on an increase of almost 75 per cent in foreign convicts.
The Home Secretary said he was prepared to extend the use of the controversial tagging scheme which lets convicts walk free early even though he admitted it was 'undesirable'.See the full content of this document
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Reluctant Clarke Will Free More Convicts
He also plans to cut the number of remand prisoners, around 14,000 at any given moment, and hand out community penalties to criminal...
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