Some prisoners will be released after they have served 40% of their sentence next month.
Mr Hogg appeared at the meeting alongside Matthew Barber, the Thames Valley's police and crime commissioner
From September, some prisoners will be released after they have served 40% of their sentence in England and Wales, rather than the current 50%. Those jailed for four years or more for serious violent offences and sex offenders will be automatically excluded from the early release scheme.Getty Images“The decision by the government is the right decision to release people early – there is no other option and any government would have made exactly the same decision, I think.
"So effectively we can’t arrest people, remand them and the courts – we’ve talked about it taking two years to get to crown court – can’t sit because there’s nowhere to put them."
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