Jenrick: Plans to expand prisons ‘are not good enough’

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Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick casts doubt on the government’s plans to open 14,000 more prison places after they revealed they could still run out of space over the next few years.     Report by Ajagbef. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Well, despite all the fanfare from the Justice Secretary today, there is no money in this

00:04announcement for any new prisons. They're simply completing the six new prisons that

00:09the last government delivered. This isn't good enough. We need to be getting the foreign

00:15national offenders out of our prisons, out of our country, getting the court sitting

00:20for longer hours, as the Lady Chief Justice has asked for, so that we can ensure that

00:25we sort out the backlog and can have the prison capacity that we need as a country right now.

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