A CONTROVERSIAL scheme to allegedly open bail hostels in secret around the country could be operating in Bournemouth. The hostels are built in residential areas to ease prison overcrowding. As they ...

Wrekin MP Mark Pritchard is to meet with Justice Secretary Jack Straw to demand an end to the secret siting of bail hostels in residential areas. Wrekin MP Mark Pritchard is to meet with Justice ...

Council leaders claim the Government is illegally bypassing them by secretly setting up hundreds of bail hostels in residential areas across England and Wales. Mr Hanson admitted that in some cases, ...

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