Mug a Hoodie ; Tories Promise They Will Put 100,000 in Jail to Clear Britain's Streets of Thugs Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling Unveils His Manifesto - Police to Be Forced to Prosecute 'Street Rats' New Law to Protect Police From Assault Grounding Orders for Young Thugs

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THOUSANDS of thugs will be locked up in a fresh crackdown on the horrific lawlessness that blights so many towns and cities in Britain if the Conservatives win power.

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling is to introduce new laws to tackle violent crime - and he will ditch Labour's policy of releasing prisoners because there are not enough cells.

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Mug a Hoodie ; Tories Promise They Will Put 100,000 in Jail to Clear Britain's Streets of Thugs Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling Unveils His Manifesto - Police to Be Forced to Prosecute 'Street Rats' New Law to Protect Police From Assault Grounding Orders for Young Thugs

Instead, the Tories will build 5,000 additional prison places, taking the capacity of the nation's jails to 100,000 for the first time in history.

The Conservative proposals include:

New laws to jail people who attack policemen.

'Grounding orders' to punish young thugs who terrorise housing estates.

Sacking police chiefs who refuse to tackle families from hell.

Cutting parole for badly behaved prisoners.

Mr Grayling denied that his plans amounted to a reversa...

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