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Beyond this, excluding certain offences from the Sentencing Act changes would make the new system more operationally complex and increase the risk of inaccuracies in release calculations. No one wants any more releases in error. The Government are working hard to reduce these by modernising the legacy paper-based systems that we inherited, but anything that increases complexity is bound to increase the risk. As we have already argued, if we run out of prison places, no one is safe, because the criminal justice system will collapse.