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Labour's prison policy in tatters

3.37.18pm BST (GMT +0100) Thu 13th Oct 2005

Commenting on the Home Office's moves to extend tagging in order to reduce the prison population, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Mark Oaten MP said:

"After 8 years in Government Labour's prison policy is in tatters. It began with tough sounding measures and locking more people up, but now the prisons are full they are going to release people early.

"It is a total mess. The length of sentences should be set to punish and rehabilitate not as a panic measure when prisons become overcrowded."

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