Shabana Mahmood

It comes after ministers introduced a law overriding new guidelines on minority offender sentencing.

The new legislation comes in response to a row over how ethnic minority offenders should be sentenced.

It follows a row with the Sentencing Council over how ethnic minority offenders should be sentenced.

New guidance on sentencing offenders from ethnic monitories and other backgrounds is set to start in April.

From April, an offender's ethnicity or faith will be a bigger factor in deciding whether to jail them.

Victims will be able to file claims when they are ready and are likelier to receive an apology, the government says.

In some cases, victims reporting serious crimes such as rape won't see suspects tried for four years.

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood says "building alone is not enough" to deal with the overcrowding crisis.