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Significant falls in prison populations in many countries
Prisons
The net impact of reduced crime, fewer prosecutions for minor crimes, and greater use of bail has been significant falls in prison populations in many countries.
But on top of this, many countries have embarked
on aggressive prisoner release programmes in order to minimise overcrowded conditions that could have made prisons a hotbed of transmission. The use of these measures has varied. As of August 2020, we
are not currently aware of early release being used widely in Australia, despite legislation in NSW and
ACT permitting the release of vulnerable and low
risk prisoners. In the UK, early release under license was planned in March but by May very few releases (fewer than 100) had actually been made, and news reports suggested 2,000 electronic tags bought for the purpose of monitoring early release prisoners were left largely unused.