Today, we look at the release of more prisoners to help ease overcrowding in jails. The government is releasing 1,100 more prisoners early, in the second wave of emergency releases since September. It comes as the Justice Secretary announced a review of sentencing with a focus on new forms of punishment outside of jails, including a form of house arrest. Adam is joined by home and legal correspondent Dominic Casciani, and former director of public prosecutions Lord Ken Macdonald. Also, Adam speaks to Marianna Spring about the final two weeks of the US Presidential election. And reveals how Newscast will be covering the election, including with the return of Remoter Voter. You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Gemma Roper and Anna Harris. The technical producer was Hannah Montgomery. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.
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Hello.
Time for a new gimmick, or even better than that, the revival of an old gimmick in a new, bigger way.
Do you remember during the UK general election, we had Remoter voter where we heard from you your reasons why you couldn't vote in person on the fourth of July.
And we had people who were remote voters.
So maybe we're just like 10 miles down the road but couldn't get to the polling station.
Then we had the remoter voters who were further away and then we had the remotest voters who were people who were like sailing the Atlantic or counting birds in the Seychelles or spending seven months in Antarctica.
All real examples, by the way, not made up.
We decided we're going to rebrand it as Remote Voter usa.
So with the presidential election approaching, well, we want to hear from you your reasons why you cannot turn up to your US polling station in person.
And it'll be an interesting test to see how many of you are actually listening in America or whether we've got some work to do to take newscast to America, which stay tuned.
We might be doing that anyway.
You know where to send them to?