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Plan for 20,000 more prison places in England and Wales won’t be complete until 2030

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74% Informative

The 4bn programme has been hit by further problems this summer , a Whitehall source said.

The new cells will not be available to head off the current capacity crisis.

Three of the new super prisons in Lancashire , Leicestershire and Buckinghamshire will not open before 2027 at the earliest because of planning appeals.

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74

Informative language

69

Neutral language

54

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

47

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possibly offensive

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not hateful

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not detected

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short-lived

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