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...Earlier, Nick Hardwick, the former head of the parole board, told the BBC that cuts and reorganisation in the system had affected the organisations’ ability to keep people safe....
...Ms Patel said: “The Parole Board could not be involved in this decision [Jeremy Corbyn]. Your party changed the law in 2008 so that Khan was automatically released irrespective of the danger he posed....
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...But a focus on parole risks obscuring the need to address a broader weakness in the criminal justice system: the dire state of the probation service....
...Harry Fletcher, former head of Napo, the probation union, said that reforms to probation five years ago had damaged the “performance and quality” of probation supervision....
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...More than 8m people (one in 23 US adults) are under some form of state control at the moment (probation, parole, community sanctions, immigration detention and so on)....
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...He made clear, however, that the 2009 figures would not be used as future performance measures for prisons or probation trusts....
...Spending on corrections has tripled in the past quarter-century and now one in every 31 US citizens is either on parole, on probation or in jail....
...David Hanson, shadow prisons minister, said he agreed with Mr Clarke’s aims but claimed they would be unaffordable as he slashes the £4bn prisons and probation bill....
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