Britain’s prisons are full: over the August Bank Holiday weekend, there were fewer than 100 men’s prison places remaining. The number of spaces has now risen slightly but the crisis remains: our prisons are running out of space. This will have serious consequences – and it isn’t good enough for Keir Starmer to keep blaming the Tories.
Keir Starmer used a speech this week to blame the Tories
Magistrates have been told to stop jailing people until after 10 September when Labour’s early release scheme will take effect. Under that system, most prisoners will be released after having served 40 per cent of their sentence; on day one, around 2,000 prisoners will be let out. The government hopes that this mass release (followed by another 2,500 on a single day in October) will buy them the time to create further capacity in the system. But this is far from guaranteed.
These offenders will be released into the supervision of our probation service.
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