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".
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Just send the criminals to Australia
“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?
Would they have more prison space if they released everyone who is incarcerated because of Woke Word Laws?
Maybe or “Just Stop Oil” criminals
What they really need is more arguing and even less action.
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.
How original.
How many of those criminals are from an “immigrant background?”
and what are the CRIMES of said surge???
SPJNK.
If they deported inmates who are illegal and have served, say, half their sentence they’d free up a lot of space.
Clearly they didn’t get the memo from their colony in California...
Going to go to critical as the Neo-fascist government invents new thought, hate, and green new deal crimes.
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