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Move to close legal loophole denying young offenders good behaviour reductions

A LEGAL loophole that denies young offenders the same sentence reductions for good behaviour granted to adult prisoners could soon be closed. Home Affairs Minister Mary Le Hegarat recently signed a ministerial decision instructing law drafters to prepare an amendment to part of the Prison (Jersey) Rules 2007, in order to add “additional grounds for remission”. […]

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