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Sunday 24th January, 2010
Thousands of criminals to serve less time in prison under Government plans
Max Chambers talks to the Telegraph about government plans to reduce prison occupancy by arresting upward sentencing drift
The document was unearthed by Max Chambers, a research fellow at Policy Exchange's Crime and Justice Unit.
"The Government repeatedly claimed that these changes were not an attempt to reduce the prison population by the back door," he said.
"The reality is that because of a failure to provide adequate capacity in the first place, the Government is going to try to manage down the prison population by up to 8,000 places over the four years"."
