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The Guardian view on the prisons crisis: moving men into women’s jails is not the answer | Editorial
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Kneejerk reactions to overcrowding will do more harm than good. Ministers should focus on probation

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/10/the-guardian-view-on-the-prisons-crisis-moving-men-into-womens-jails-is-not-the-answer

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Burnham ‘personally intervened’ over possible early prison release of grooming gang perpetrators https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/06/burnham-intervened-possible-early-prison-release-grooming-gang-perpetrators #PrisonsAndProbation #RapeAndSexualAssault #UkCriminalJustice #Sentencing #ViolenceAgainstWomenAndGirls #Bradford #AndyBurnham #UkNews #Politics #England #Wales

Burnham ‘personally intervened’ over possible early prison release of grooming gang perpetrators
By Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

Government ‘urgently’ identifying men convicted in historic cases who could be freed in scheme loophole

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/06/burnham-intervened-possible-early-prison-release-grooming-gang-perpetrators

#Prisonsandprobation #Rapeandsexualassault #UKcriminaljustice #Sentencing #Violenceagainstwomenandgirls #Bradford #AndyBurnham #UKnews #Politics #England #Wales #TheGuardian #RajeevSyalHomeaffairseditor