PM to create 10,000 new prison places and extend stop-and-search.
11/08/19.
Home Secretary Priti Patel: "Stop-and-search works."
An extra 10,000 new prison places will be created and stop-and-search powers expanded, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised.
The first new prison in the £2.5bn programme will be at HMP Full Sutton in Yorkshire, where expansion plans have previously been announced.
The government said the plans showed it was "serious about fighting crime".
But Labour's shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, said "random" stop-and-search was a "recipe for unrest". BBC News.
