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Early release prisoners are 'handed TENTS' as probation runs out of housing despite Burnham's rough sleeping vow

Early release prisoners are 'handed TENTS' as probation runs out of housing despite Burnham's rough sleeping vow

'I've got a tent, go and live in a park for a bit,' one probation whistleblower admitted telling a freed inmate. Around 100 tents have gone out in a year, and supplies have reportedly run dry. Ex-prisoners sleeping rough more than doubled from 6,040 in 2022/23 to 14,360. Prime Minister Andy Burnham has pledged to 'offer everyone a route off the streets this Christmas'.

Around 1,350 prisoners were freed this month after serving as little as a third.

Officers once had a year to house prisoners and now get just a couple of weeks.

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