The justice ministry, one of the big losers in the spending review this week, will see a quarter lopped off its budget by 2015. Cutting legal aid, closing courts and laying off civil servants—the sacrifices offered by the ministry last month—were not enough. The £4 billion prison-building programme begun by Labour is also to be trimmed, at least one planned new 1,500-place prison deferred, some 11,000 front-line probation and prison officers axed and perhaps 3,000 prison places lost.

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