A plan to release ‘thousands’ of prisoners was considered during the Covid-19 lockdown, according to Matt Hancock’s diaries.
which is serialising the former health secretary’s journals, come as Mr Hancock returns to Westminster after his stint on ITV’s I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!
In a diary entry on March 17, he wrote: ‘A bonkers proposal from the Ministry of Justice to let prisoners out, as they’d be easier to manage if they’re not in prison. Later on April 3, he wrote: ‘Officials are still insisting that Justice Secretary Rob Buckland wants to release thousands of non-violent prisoners to take the pressure off the system. I keep writing ‘NO’ in large letters on submissions asking me to sign this off.‘After about the third iteration, I called Rob Buckland, who to my astonishment told me he’d been advised that I was the one who wanted to release them.
‘We cannot lock up literally everyone in the country except prisoners, who we instead release, I spluttered.’
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