‘If we are to manage the rapidly-developing crisis we are facing, it is vital that we begin now to take steps to reduce our prisoner population,’ says justice minister Naomi Long as campaigners call for similar move in England and Wales
“However, in the context of the pandemic we are facing, and to ensure as far as possible the safety and wellbeing of staff and those in our care, it is an appropriate and reasonable step.”
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