Eleven hundred prisoners are being released early - as part of the Government's emergency scheme to ease the overcrowding crisis in jails across England and Wales.

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The Prime Minister said he "shared public anger" at the sight of inmates walking free but said there was "no choice".

A wholescale review of sentencing - to be led by the former Conservative Justice secretary David Gauke - was also announced today - part of a raft of measures to avoid what the government said could be "complete paralysis" of the entire legal system.

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