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UK: Government running out of prison places and has to ask police for 400 cells
SKY News ^ | November 30, 2022 | By Jennifer Scott

Posted on 11/30/2022 8:45:59 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

The government is running out of prison places and has had to ask police for 400 cells to make sure there is enough accommodation for the prison population.

Prisons minister Damian Hinds told MPs there had been an "acute and sudden increase in the prison population" in recent months and, as a result, the Operation Safeguard contingency plan had been launched for the first time since 2007.

He said the government had "long anticipated" the rise due to bringing in additional measures to tackle crime, and had been "planning ahead" for it.

But Mr Hinds blamed strike action by the Criminal Bar Association (CBA), saying it had led to more people being held on remand.

And with court hearings now returning to normal, he said the government was "seeing a surge in offenders coming through the criminal justice system, placing capacity pressure on adult male prisons in particular".

The CBA disputed the minister's claims, saying the remand prison population was already at "a decade high" of over 13,000 before they went on strike.

James Rossiter said any implication the "out of control" prison numbers were down to the organisation's action was "gaslighting by government to cover up their failure to invest in the criminal justice system for years before we took action to save the situation".

Labour accused the government of cutting more than 10,000 prison places since it came to power in 2010, saying ministers were not "serious about protecting victims of crime".

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: crime; unitedkingdom

1 posted on 11/30/2022 8:45:59 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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Just send the criminals to Australia


2 posted on 11/30/2022 8:47:08 AM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“acute and sudden increase in the prison population” in recent months

Does this by chance correlate with the recent wave of illegal aliens invading the sceptered isle?


3 posted on 11/30/2022 8:48:14 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Would they have more prison space if they released everyone who is incarcerated because of Woke Word Laws?


4 posted on 11/30/2022 8:48:59 AM PST by Savage Rider
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To: BenLurkin

Maybe or “Just Stop Oil” criminals


5 posted on 11/30/2022 8:49:11 AM PST by RandFan
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What they really need is more arguing and even less action.


6 posted on 11/30/2022 8:56:00 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Prison space for criminals is being made vacant. The spaces are for the new arrivals. Political prisoners and enemies of the bureaucracy state. The property and housing of those political prisoners will be turned over to the traditional criminals no longer in prison. The Zimbabwe Way.

The uneducated, street hardened, low skilled, emotionally driven gangs are very obedient, follow orders, and will do anything asked to do in exchange for immunity from their actions and some cash. Command and control is gone through justice department either directly or thru community grants.

7 posted on 11/30/2022 8:57:11 AM PST by blackdog (The head, hands, and heart, serve even further than the purse. )
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To: dsrtsage
Just send the criminals to Australia

How original.

8 posted on 11/30/2022 8:59:19 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How many of those criminals are from an “immigrant background?”


9 posted on 11/30/2022 9:01:53 AM PST by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

and what are the CRIMES of said surge???


10 posted on 11/30/2022 9:04:07 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

SPJNK.


11 posted on 11/30/2022 9:05:54 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If they deported inmates who are illegal and have served, say, half their sentence they’d free up a lot of space.


12 posted on 11/30/2022 9:06:16 AM PST by marron
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Clearly they didn’t get the memo from their colony in California...


13 posted on 11/30/2022 9:09:42 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Going to go to critical as the Neo-fascist government invents new thought, hate, and green new deal crimes.


14 posted on 11/30/2022 9:17:05 AM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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