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Justice Secretary Alex Norris says 14,000 new prison places will be built and the government will have more powers to remove foreign offenders. Report by Aslams. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00We're creating more space. You know, we're already, we've got the biggest building programme since the Victorian era. It's 14
00:06,000 places. We're pulling some of that forward as part of the announcement that we've made today. But we're also,
00:11we've got more powers and more ability to remove foreign offenders. You know, so we've got lots and lots that
00:17we can do in the space to create that extra capacity whilst we build more so that we've got a
00:22permanent estate that makes sure we always have a prison place available.

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