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Minister shrugs off prison violence claims
TORY Prisons Minister Jeremy Wright tried yesterday to shrug off blame for rising violence in prisons, claiming it was society’s fault and not because of deep Con-Dem budget cuts.
In front of prison officers at the POA conference, Mr Wright bizarrely claimed: “I don’t believe what we’re doing is making the prison estate an unsafe place.
“I suspect we have to not just look at what’s happening inside prisons but what’s happening outside prisons in wider society to properly understand this.”
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