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Sir Keir Starmer has been warned Labour is “rolling the dice” by releasing thousands of banged-up Britons next month in a bid to tackle overcrowding in prisons. Ex-Parole Board Chief Executive Martin Jones, who now heads up the probation service, also claimed staff monitoring ex-convicts do not have the resources to cope with the move. Jones accepted there were “no risk-free options” but argued the move would put further strain on the probation service. “I think it’s inevitable, being realistic about it, that things will go wrong,” he told The Times. “I wish we could live in a perfect world wh…

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