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  "id": 17070851,
  "title": "Prison service proposed sentence cuts due to overcrowding",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/prison-service-proposed-sentence-cuts-due-to-overcrowding",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-29T13:32:40.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "RTE News",
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    "url": "https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/1029/1597221-prison-service-analysis/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Irish jails were so overcrowded that a proposal to cut 40 days from the sentence of every prisoner in the State was put forward by authorities struggling to find more space.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}