The prisons minister called the recent early release scheme a 'rescue effort', and said the summer riots showed how close the system came to catastrophe.
The prisons system was 'teetering on the edge of disaster' after being run 'so hot for so long' by the previous government, prisons minister Lord Timpson has said, while speaking for the first time publicly since taking the role. Addressing delegates at a meeting of the Prison Governors' Association in Nottingham, the Labour peer said that changes including emergency early release measures were 'quite frankly, a rescue effort'.
The Chief Inspector of Prisons, Charlie Taylor, has suggested that the sentencing review will help alleviate overcrowding problems but has warned of capacity problems again soon, perhaps within a year. 'The population has increased and will continue to increase, despite government measures they've made, in a year or so's time we will have to be thinking again about what we do', he told Sky News. 'The sentencing review will help', he said.
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