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Slopping-out compensation bill continues to escalate

It started with a financial re-shuffle so slight it was barely discernable. Some £13m was diverted from the prison budget to tackle drug trafficking and domestic abuse instead of ending slopping-out in the 1990s.

It started with a financial re-shuffle so slight it was barely discernable. Some £13m was diverted from the prison budget to tackle drug trafficking and domestic abuse instead of ending slopping-out in the 1990s.