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UK
secretary Shabana Mahmood warned of a "
breakdown in
and order" if prisons reached
. She said: "Prisons are on the point of
". She warned of "looters running
…robbing shops and setting neighbourhoods alight". She blamed
prisons ministers for a "dereliction of
" and for decimating the system. She called them: "The
men who put their political careers ahead of the
…of our country."