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Ministers are considering extraordinary solutions to the prisons crisis

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73% Informative

Around 3,000 prisoners in England and Wales will be released early from jail next week .

The system came within 100 places of running out of cells in the last week .

Number of prisoners and number of prison places have been nearly the same in other words, the prisons are full.

The last Conservative government acknowledged this problem and had resorted to some emergency measures to try to ease the pressure.

VR Score

74

Informative language

70

Neutral language

63

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

44

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

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Time-value

short-lived

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