Posted on 07/09/2024 5:45:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Sir Keir Starmer is expected to authorise emergency measures this week to automatically release criminals less than halfway through their sentence in an attempt to tackle the prisons crisis.
There are fewer than 700 spaces left in men’s jails in England and Wales, The Times has been told, before a critical week in the prisons overcrowding crisis. A Ministry of Justice (MoJ) source said “the immediate crisis is quite severe” after the general election stalled its ability to free up more space over the past six weeks.
Shabana Mahmood, the new justice secretary, has been presented with a list of immediate and medium-term options to ease pressure on prisons and to ensure the most dangerous criminals are locked up.
She has been advised by officials that a decision must be taken this week to prevent full capacity being reached before August 1. This is when pressure on prisons eases as fewer criminals are sentenced or held on remand as courts reduce their sitting days for a month and police tend to make fewer arrests.
However, an MoJ source said that demand for prison places “comes roaring back” immediately after the August bank holiday and it was incumbent on the government to ensure it has implemented measures in plenty of time beforehand. “We’ve got to have enough headroom for the Tuesday after the bank holiday because you tend to have lots of pent-up demand, it’s always a monster week with loads of people flowing into prisoners. Officials have told Shabana ‘you’ve got a big problem’.”
At the top of the list of options presented to Mahmood over the weekend is lowering the automatic release point for prisoners to less than 50 per cent through their sentence.
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always useful to the incumbent regime.
because they want a Crime Crisis ,LOL
Ease the prison crisis = Increase the national crisis.
Eliminate one crisis in you prisons and transfer it to the streets.
The maximum sentence any criminal can serve in the UK is 20 years, even for a capital crime.
It just shows you how bad the immigrant crime wave has become.
LMFAO!
Less than 700 spaces left, so let’s release 40,000+. Liberal math.
they’ll keep pushing & pushing...
Sounds good.
Release the criminals.
Prosecute anyone who resists the criminals.
Oliver Cromwell, please pick up the white courtesy telephone.
Muzzies have a very different definition of what a violent criminal is!
She seems nice, and stable.
They could have her play Margaret Hamilton's part in the new remake of "The Wizard of Oz", if they want to really scare the children.
Labour needs the room to start jailing the conservatives so they can stay in power forever.
They already have a crime crisis, that’s how they got to a prison crisis.
That’s not a prison crisis - that’s a criminal crisis
Here’s an idea... Build more prisons!
But I hope they follow through with their plan. Useful idiots have to suffer the consequences of their stupidity before they wake up... if then!
Good and hard and fast. Way to go Brits you idiots.
They built a huge prison in El Salvador.
I like this Bukele guy!
Here’s an article with a video on their mega prison and new inhabitants.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-64770716
I got a feeling the crime rate has dropped significantly the last few months.
Obviously, they're not following that any longer.
The age of the white Briton is over. The natives voted for their national suicide. Enjoy the caliphate. Very sad that we are close behind them.
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