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Just recently we were told that offenders recalled to prison would be let out earlier due to overcrowding.

It said this would prove challenging, especially given the government's ambitions to improve the criminal justice system and to deal with prison overcrowding.

Patients were found to be waiting up to 36 hours and "overcrowding, uncertainty, and discomfort" were also common concerns.

Meanwhile, as the overcrowding worsened, more dogs and cats were euthanized in city shelters under her watch than in the preceding years.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, head of the Metropolitan Police Sir Mark Rowley acknowledged the government had a "difficult problem to fix" on prison overcrowding.