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Get out of jail free: 1,700 prisoners released early

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Around 1,700 prisoners were being freed on Tuesday in the first wave of early release to ease the overcrowding crisis in jails despite new warnings that some are certain to reoffend.

Evening Standard home affairs editor Martin Bentham reports each of the inmates being released will have served only 40 per cent of the prison term they were handed by the courts in an emergency measure ordered by the Government to stop jails running out of space for new suspects and convicts.

In part two, the Princess of Wales has been praised by charities for giving “hope to many others” with a heartfelt video explaining progress in her cancer treatment.

Evening Standard reporter Robert Dex discusses Kate’s use of the professionally-shot short film also featuring her husband and children, and its public relations context, to announce completion of her course of chemotherapy.

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