The Association of Social Workers has warned Prisons Commissioner Moshe Wertheimer — and his boss, Police Minister Haim Barlev — that they had better ready cells for 900 more prisoners in the coming year if proposed cuts in social services are implemented. According to the social workers, the cuts would force judges to send more offenders to jail rather than put them on probation.
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