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<p>We are committed to making sure that prisons are safe, decent and support rehabilitation.
That is why we have invested £14m to tackle serious and organised crime, which impacts
on the community and is one of the major root causes of instability in prisons.</p><p>
</p><p>The impact of harms like violence and drug use are clear, but these are often
the result of prisoners who ostensibly behave, but have others do their bidding. We
need to cut these prisoners off from their network and prevent them from operating,
to create environments in which prisoners can be rehabilitated.</p><p> </p><p>Through
our own data, and closer work with law enforcement, we are looking at how we can better
use intelligence and information to identify these ringleaders among the 6,500 prisoners
who have links to organised crime and target them for disruption. Due to the sensitive
nature of this data, I am unable to disclose more precise figures.</p>
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