A Leopard Cannot Change Its Spots.....

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crg5vp0296eo

Labour have always loved low life criminal scum, terrorists and assorted baddies. So lets let 1000s of them out to continue their criminal careers. Wonderful.

[ToraToraTora]

11:57 not remotely comparable, this would be an outsourcing deal to supply a service. Happens all the time across a vast spectrum of areas.

[sandyRoe]

Are they not just continuing a process set in place by the Tories?

[newmodarmy]

I guess we're going to have 5, maybe 10, years of these threads 

[gulliver1]

11.55 "£60k per prisoner in the UK" .Send them to Rwanda then. Already paid for. ......Courtesy of  the now defunct .                       ..............Teeny Tiny Tory Party.......

[newmodarmy]

^ I also guess we're going to have 5, maybe 10, years of these TTTory party 'jokes'. 

[New Judge]

"Why were the Tories not building extra accommodation instead of releasing them early?"

They were. The Conservatives' prison plan has seen the opening or extension of four prisons, with around 5,000 places. One more is due to open next year providing another  1,400 places.

 

Probably for the same reason that Labour did not do so during their 13 year tenure.

In 1997, the year Labour last came to power, the prison population in England & Wales stood at roughly 61,000. By the time they left office in 2010, it had risen to 84,600. It was quite clear during all of that time (and indeed prior to Labour taking office) that the prison population was rising steeply.

 

[Gromit]

The previous Conservative Prisons Minister had the same plan as Labour.   
// Alex Chalk, the previous [Conservative] justice secretary, has confirmed that he also prepared plans to release some prisoners after 40% of their sentence and to send fewer people to jail in the first place // .

There is a finite number of cells, and there are far to many convicts to occupy them. Who ever had have won the election would have had to release early. We don't really have several options to choose from - there is only one sensible way forward.

[gulliver1]

Let's start levelling up.Build a new prison and put the real criminals and fraudsters in there ....All of the ex Tory MPs.  And don't forget Boris.

[newmodarmy]

gulliver, a sensible post every now and again might give you more credibility

[gulliver1]

NMA 14.14 "Non so blind as they who don't want to see"

[Spungle]

I thought things could only get better under Labour?!

[Old_Geezer]

"Them all" will be a fair description if all are eligible for consideration, since it's then just a matter of when they get let off. Yeah, maybe Rwanda will take them. In any case this is just one of the wrong directions the government is moving in, as many worried about.

 

BTW, It wasn't "get better", it was "get beggered" !

[Mozz71]

Gully, perhaps we could send all the released prisoners to whatever sin kissed paradise you live on, but I wouldn't fancy seeing everyone released just so you can hail every political adversary you dislike.