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"textContent": "Sex offenders and prisoners granted bail will be monitored using ankle tags, in a bid to cut the numbers in our overcrowded prisons. Extra.ie can reveal the Government was this month forced to re-advertise for the scheme, which has been delayed twice, after it did not receive any suitable responses to its first tender. It […]",
"title": "Ankle monitors for bailed prisoners and sex offenders in bid to cut overcrowding"
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