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Plans to close Lancaster Castle and Ashwell prisons and re-role Morton Hall prison to an Immigration Removal Centre, have been announced.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
New plans to extend the scope of the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) to open up government and other bodies to public scrutiny, were unveiled by the Ministry of Justice today.
Staff from across the Ministry of Justice have been recognised in the New Year Honours list 2011.
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