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PRISON officers’ union POA demanded a public inquiry to deal with Britain’s jail capacity crisis today.
General secretary Steve Gillan added that Labour should invest in its current prisons and only build new ones after a review of court sentencing.
The prison service says it has fewer than 80,000 safe and decent accommodation prison places in England and Wales.
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