The justice secretary Shabana Mahmood has warned even under the government's plans to open 14,000 more prison places, they could still run out of space over the next few years. She said, "we are going to fall short and we simply can not build our way out of this problem."
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00:00Even with the delivery of the full 14,000 which we are committed to, we are still going to run out
00:07because we published for the first time the supply line which shows new prisons and new prison places coming on stream
00:13but also the demand line which is the demand for prison places and it clearly shows that we are going to fall short
00:19and we simply cannot build fast enough or build our way out of this problem.