A scheme designed to ease overcrowding in jails is being extended again, according to The Times.
Some prisoners could have up to 70 days shaved off their jail time as ministers reportedly extended an early release scheme in a bid to ease overcrowding in prisons.
The email said that despite measures introduced less than two months ago to free up space, prisons face “significant challenges” and “pressures continue in the male estate” in England and Wales, according to the newspaper.This is a national scandal, the public has a right to know the truth.Justice Secretary Alex Chalk announced in October that the Government would use the powers it has to allow the Prison Service to let some prisoners out of jail up to 18 days early to ease overcrowding.
Labour’s shadow justice secretary Shabana Mahmood said: “The Tories have once again used a cloak of secrecy to hide their early release of violent criminals.Justice Secretary Alex Chalk
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