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David Lammy calls for Asian business owners to offer skills to prisoners

By: Eastern Eye Staff

EXCLUSIVE By Reena Kumar BRITAIN’S Asian business community has “huge capacity” to support prisoners but isn’t doing enough to help provide skills and employment when offenders are released, Labour MP David Lammy has said. The north London politician is chair of the cross-party Lammy Review, which looks into the treatment of ethnic minorities in the criminal justice system. In an exclusive interview last week, Lammy told Eastern Eye that the high level of success in the business community enabled entrepreneurs to reach out a hand to the disproportionately high number of Asians in prison. The Tottenham MP said: “The Asian…

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