Britain to spare minor offenders jail in effort to ease prison overcrowding ...Middle East

Offenders in England and Wales who are given jail sentences of less than a year will usually see those sentences suspended and do community service instead, Britain's justice minister said on Monday, in an effort to ease prison overcrowding. The prison population in England and Wales has doubled in the last 30 years as a result of longer criminal sentences and a tougher approach to violent and drug-related crime.

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