Government triggers crisis measure to ease prison overcrowding
by Vikram Dodd and Rajeev Syal from World news | The Guardian on (#6MPFM)
Exclusive: Operation Safeguard confirmed by Ministry of Justice after damning report on conditions in one of UK's biggest jails
The government has formally triggered a crisis measure to ease prison overcrowding by using police cells to house inmates.
The confirmation of Operation Safeguard by the Ministry of Justice follows a decision to consider releasing some prisoners 70 days before their sentences were due to end.
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