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I was at a meeting today with someone who's husband is a magistrate. He received an email saying that everyone involved in the looting/riots must be given a custodial sentence, followed by a message saying that they would be making additional room in UK prisons to allow for this (not sure how they plan to do this as aren't they already overcrowded?).

If 800 custodial sentences are dished out the prison population (England and Wales) will rise by 1%.

Not sure that helps much, but it might give you an idea.

By the way, a real term increase of 1% (over a few days) is enormous.