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Thu 12th Oct 2017
Prisons Policy/HMP Long Lartin
Commons Chamber (Urgent Question)

Prisons Policy/HMP Long Lartin

Debate between Sam Gyimah and Ed Davey
Thursday 12th October 2017

(7 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Sam Gyimah Portrait Mr Gyimah
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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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