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LIB DEMS CALL FOR FEWER WOMEN PRISONERS
More women will spend Christmas in jail
than ever before, according to the
Liberal Democrats.
Prisons spokesman Alan Beith said
Britain's female prison population had
reached a historic high of 1,772 after
a rise of about a third since 1992.
Mr Beith called for greater use of
community sentencing for women because
many were being jailed for minor crimes
such as petty theft and minor fraud.
There had also been a sharp rise in the
number of women held in remand yet only
a quarter were jailed, he said.
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