It seems Labour has freed 37 prisoners who should not have been allowed out. Would these convicts have been wrongly released without austerity?
It may seem a bizarre question – but it seems the prison system should not have let them go because they have breached restraining orders on them, and the older law under which they were convicted was not identified as a red flag against their release.
Is that because the expertise needed to recognise this fact was not available due to the relevant personnel having been laid off under one of the Tories’ many austerity cuts?
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I ask only for information; I don’t know whether this is what happened but it seems likely to me.
Offenders who were jailed for breaching restraining orders were supposed to be excluded from the early release scheme as part of a wider effort to ensure domestic abusers did not end up back in the community early.
The releases happened under Keir Starmer’s sticking-plaster-politics scheme to reduce prison overcrowding. Fortunately 32 of those who were wrongly released have been returned to prison but five are still at large.
All victims have been contacted but it has been conceded that the situation is “very distressing and frightening” for them.
That could have been avoided if the Tories had admitted that it is impossible to run a sophisticate first-world country on third-world resources; and if they had accepted that the prison system should not be handed over to private companies that tried to run them for profit by cutting costs.
Labour’s big mistake was expecting a system the Tories had broken to work for the new government.
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Would these convicts have been wrongly released without austerity?
It seems Labour has freed 37 prisoners who should not have been allowed out. Would these convicts have been wrongly released without austerity?
It may seem a bizarre question – but it seems the prison system should not have let them go because they have breached restraining orders on them, and the older law under which they were convicted was not identified as a red flag against their release.
Is that because the expertise needed to recognise this fact was not available due to the relevant personnel having been laid off under one of the Tories’ many austerity cuts?
Buy Cruel Britannia in print here. Buy the Cruel Britannia ebook here. Or just click on the image!
I ask only for information; I don’t know whether this is what happened but it seems likely to me.
Offenders who were jailed for breaching restraining orders were supposed to be excluded from the early release scheme as part of a wider effort to ensure domestic abusers did not end up back in the community early.
The releases happened under Keir Starmer’s sticking-plaster-politics scheme to reduce prison overcrowding. Fortunately 32 of those who were wrongly released have been returned to prison but five are still at large.
All victims have been contacted but it has been conceded that the situation is “very distressing and frightening” for them.
That could have been avoided if the Tories had admitted that it is impossible to run a sophisticate first-world country on third-world resources; and if they had accepted that the prison system should not be handed over to private companies that tried to run them for profit by cutting costs.
Labour’s big mistake was expecting a system the Tories had broken to work for the new government.
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