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The new government in the UK is having to deal with a serious
in its prison system. The new Labour administration made the
on Friday to release thousands of prisoners before the
had finished serving their
. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer attributed the
in Britain's prisons service to a decade of neglect and underinvestment under the
Conservative Party, which had been in
for 14 years. The
population is nearly at
. Inmates are having to be released early to accommodate newly-sentenced felons. Some will be released having served just 40 per cent of their time. Mr Starmer said the problem was "pretty unforgivable, in my
".
