Sentencing calls led to jails crisis, Tories say

THE Tories insisted they listened to “demands to see criminals punished with proper sentences” after a report slammed their handling of prisons.

- By Michael Knowles

A scathing review of overcrowding found the system came “within days of meltdown”.

‘The report - by former chief inspector of prisons Dame Anne Owers - said the “default position was to do as little as possible as late as possible”.

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