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British prisoners could soon be housed in Estonian jails after the number of criminals imprisoned in England and Wales hit a record high of 88,350.
Estonia’s minister of justice Liisa Pakosta yesterday said they have cells available to rent out to its Nato allies.
It comes as some judges have been warned not to send people to jail over low-level crimes and some prisoners have are set to be released early to ease the overcrowding issue in Britain’s prisons.
Ms Pakosta said the scheme could be worth £25 million to Estonia and suggested that Britain and Sweden are already in talk to ship prisoners to the Baltic nation.
She said: ‘Half of the spaces are empty. And it is true that I’ve submitted a memo to the government cabinet for…