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UK
secretary Shabana Mahmood warned of a "
breakdown in law and order" if prisons reached
. She said: "Prisons are on the
of collapse". If space runs out, there will be
to put anyone arrested. Mahmood said there would be "looters running
, smashing windows, robbing shops and setting
alight". She blamed the UK's
leader and prisons ministers for their "dereliction of
" and for decimating the system. She called them: "The guilty men who put their political
ahead of the safety…of our country."
