Prisons Policy/HMP Long Lartin Debate

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Prisons Policy/HMP Long Lartin

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Business of the House
Thursday 12th October 2017

(7 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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I can confirm not only that there was a full regime but that the number of prison officer staff on the wing was as normal.

Ed Davey Portrait Sir Edward Davey (Kingston and Surbiton) (LD)
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Andrea Albutt, president of the Prison Governors Association, said this week that our prisons were full to bursting. In the lowest-category prisons, will the Minister consider trying to deal with this overcrowding and reduce prison numbers safely and sensibly by introducing a presumption against short sentences, as has been successively implemented in Scotland?

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