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"The maximum amount of cash that prisoners will be released with is £172.24. The cost will be around £4.5million this financial year."
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The overall aim is to reduce the numbers behind bars at any one time by 1,200, so - with the courts currently jailing people faster than those who have completed their sentence are being released - the policy will remain in place indefinitely.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770
Bill, they are building prisons now but they should have done it much earlier instead of advising courts to stop sending all but the most serious offenders to prison.