Answer to Dictation 1
The new government in the UK is having to deal with a serious crisis.
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Answer to Dictation 2
Release thousands of prisoners before the convicts had finished serving their sentence.
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Answer to Dictation 3
Starmer attributed the mess in Britain's prisons service to a decade of neglect.
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Answer to Dictation 4
Inmates are having to be released early to accommodate newly-sentenced felons.
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Answer to Dictation 5
Some will be released having served just 40 per cent of their time.
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Answer to Dictation 6
Mahmood warned of a total breakdown in law and order if prisons reached capacity.
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Answer to Dictation 7
If space ran out there would be nowhere to put those arrested.
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Answer to Dictation 8
There would be looters running amok smashing windows and robbing shops.
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Answer to Dictation 9
Blamed ministers for a dereliction of duty and for decimating the system.
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Answer to Dictation 10
Put their political careers ahead of the safety and security of our country.
See the overcrowded prisons lesson for the whole text.
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