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Admission follows report that judges have been ordered to stop sentencing convicted criminals who are on bail
The deprivation of liberty should not be the responsibility of a private company
HMP Berwyn was meant to be a blueprint for fixing the penal system. Two years on, it is 40 per cent empty
Bailouts of £500m to private sector, with some offenders only monitored electronically
Disturbance in Swaleside jail is latest in a series of violent episodes
Disturbance at G4S-run Winson Green raises pressure over crisis in jail system
Prison Service to take charge of 2,000-inmate facility but will outsource a third of the work
Learn lessons from drug and violence failures at Oakwood, says chief inspector
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