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Former shadow cabinet member Lucy Powell calls on the Government to extend its plans for prison officer recruitment to the rest of England and Wales.

The Justice Secretary has announced a pay rise of up to 拢5,000 to prison officers working in London and the southeast of England, in order to recruit and retain officers and help alleviate the problems in the prison system.

The Labour MP said that prisons all over the country, including Strangeways in her Manchester constituency, are "just as much under huge pressure" and "doing too much with too few staff".

They "need that extra pay and extra incentive to get the prison officers in that they need," she said.