BBC NEWS| Tories planning new prison places

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"A criminal goes to court - they are told they have got a four year sentence and they are let out after two, so everybody feels cheated.
"We are going to change that and say the judge should read out what we call the 'min-max'.
"And then the prisoner has to earn release through good behaviour, through hard work, through making reparations to their victims."
He added: "The real emphasis on it is actually turning prisons into places not where we just warehouse prisoners and bang them up for 23 hours a day in their cell.
"But they should be places of work, of rehabilitation and of reparation, so that the work prisoners do do, means that they can pay money back to their victims - these are really important policies."
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