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MORE people than ever before will spend Christmas behind bars this year. A total of 87,393 people are being held in prisons in England and Wales, 567 fewer than last week, but almost 4,000 more compared with 12 months ago, with none released over the weekend, Prison Service figures showed. The figures come after campaigners warned that the size of the current prison population was "neither justifiable or sustainable".
Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said: "Unless Government can succeed in reserving prison for serious and violent offenders the cost to the taxpayer will rocket in 2012.See the full content of this document
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Record Numbers Are Behind Bars at Christmas
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