New prisons to be built and inmates released early, justice secretary says, as MoJ warns men’s jails could run out of space – UK politics live

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We will now go further. While the spending review is ongoing, I can announce today that the Treasury will fund our prison expansion plans in full across the spending review period. This is a total capital investment of £4.7bn. It allows us to start building three new prisons. We have already committed £2.3bn pounds to prison expansion, and since taking office, we have delivered 2,400 new places. Last December we published a long-term building strategy setting out our aim to open up 14,000 prison places by 2031. This is the largest expansion of the prison estate since the Victorians. Mahmood...