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Deputy PM David Lammy clashes with Shadow Housing Secretary Sir James Cleverly during Prime Minister’s Questions about government plans to release some prisoners early, including sex offenders, to help ease prison overcrowding and increase capacity. Report by Keechl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00We all know that releasing dangerous criminals on purpose is the wrong thing.
00:04We're not content with doing that.
00:05He is hell-bent on releasing dangerous criminals by accident.
00:11Last year, last year, in response to the questions of my right honourable friend,
00:16the member for South Suffolk,
00:19he claimed that under Labour he had got a grip of accidental releases.
00:25Yet we now know there have been more accidental releases in the last two years
00:31than in the entirety of the last Parliament.
00:35So I give him another chance.
00:37Will he apologise to the country for his abject failure
00:42at keeping prisoners in prison where they belong?
00:48I've got to say, this is rich coming from the honourable gentleman.
00:52They had 14 long years in power.
00:56They wrecked neighbourhood policing.
00:58He was Home Secretary.
01:00Prisons were at bursting point.
01:02That's why they called the general election.
01:04And they let out offenders in secret.
01:08And that is why we have the Sentencing Act
01:11that passed through this House and the House of Lords.
01:14I've got to settle in lar Sicherheit.
01:14However...
01:14far back if we saw people's
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