136. By 1987, it had become clear that serious anomalies had developed in the system and that it was no longer operating satisfactorily in a number of important respects. A committee was therefore established under the chairmanship of Lord Carlisle of Bucklow to examine the operation of the parole system in England and Wales, and the committee reported in November 1988. The report made a number of wide-ranging recommendations for improving the system, including changes both in the structure and in the decision-making process to make it more open. The Government is now considering these recommendations and will similarly announce its conclusions, and proposals for new legislation, later in the year. The Government is also considering the report of a committee established to consider the parole system in Scotland under the chairmanship of Lord Kincraig, which was published in March 1989. 137. Measures to reduce the prison population have not been confined to sentenced prisoners, and a number of initiatives, typically involving bail hostels and bail information schemes, have been taken to reduce the numbers sent to prison on remand. The remand population in England and Wales fell by about 1,000, or about 7.5 per cent, between September 1988 and August 1989. 138. Paragraphs 31-33 of the second periodic report described changes which had been made extending the right of prisoners to make complaints in their correspondence without having submitted those complaints to the prison authorities, particularly by the replacement of the so-called "prior ventilation rule" by the "simultaneous ventilation rule", and by the abolition of all such restrictions in the case of prisoners' correspondence with their legal advisers. As already noted above (para. 77), in England and Wales the CCPR/C/58/Add.6 page 32 "simultaneous ventilation rule" has itself been abolished, with the result that prison regulations no longer impose any restrictions on the circumstances 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing the criminal justice system in the United Kingdom, specifically the parole system and measures to reduce the prison population. It also mentions changes to the rules governing prisoners' correspondence. The language used is formal and official, suggesting a government or institutional report.

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Education, Humanitarian aid and relief