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Eager beaver new Home Secretary John Reid is blazing with all guns; yesterday he told us how he's going to restructure the "dysfunctional" Home Office and clear out 400,000+ internally lost asylum seekers in five years. Today he's "re-balancing" the criminal justice system. This seems to involve locking lifers up for longer and building more prisons. It's all action around Reid "The Heid", but it's not clear that a calm, measured justice system will emerge from the scrum.

The Times; Friday 21/7/06

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