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for three or four questions. the gentleman just here, if for three or four questions. the gentlemanjust here, if you could say your name. sure, paulfrom itv news, you say that there is no quick fix but many of your predecessors say there is, simply to send fewer people to prison, isn t that the immediate way to reduce the pressure on our immediate way to reduce the pressure on our prisons? as i pointed out in my speech, we are sending fewer first time offenders to prison and we are sending fewer people to prison, for short sentences. but the fa ct prison, for short sentences. but the fact is, we have seen an increase in prosecution rates, for areas like sex crime, and an increase in sentences for those, which i think reflects the seriousness of those crimes and i think it would be wrong to arbitrarily reduce those sentences are not prosecute as many cases. so we are keeping a steady prison population, that is what has happened for the last six years, we are reducing the numbe
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