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                                <title><![CDATA[ New law on drug offences to cut overcrowding at prisons, says home minister ]]></title>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Prisons dept mulls off-days from jail to solve overcrowding ]]></title>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Ecuador to pardon 5,000 prisoners to tackle overcrowding ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2022 01:06:20 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Ecuador's 65 prisons have capacity for 30,000 inmates but house some 39,000, equivalent to 30% overcrowding. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Rights group slams detention of hundreds of children at immigration centres as pandemic rages on ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2020 03:36:51 GMT</pubDate>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Overcrowding the problem, not SOPs, rights group says on prison spikes ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2020 03:49:08 GMT</pubDate>
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