The mass release of criminals who have served less than half of their prison sentences begins tomorrow, September 10th, while victims of crime across the country remain unsupported by a broken justice system.
Around 2,000 prisoners will be released in just one day on Tuesday, followed by a further 1,700 in one day next month. Whistleblowers claim that serious sexual offenders will be among them, despite assurances to the contrary.
So it is no wonder that Nicole Jacobs, the domestic abuse commissioner, has warned that victims of domestic violence will be having “sleepless nights” over this early release scheme—a “high proportion” of the beneficiaries of which will be domestic abusers, according to a government source.
Jacobs told The Times that about a third of domestic abuse victims whose abusers are being released are likely to be unaware or unsupported.
The newspaper added that a man jailed for breaking his partner’s jaw, and another who told his ex-partner he was “enjoying it” as he attacked her, are among those due to be freed.
Officially, the early release scheme is designed to deal with the prison overcrowding problem left behind by previous Conservative governments. That said, the new Labour government’s prisons minister has openly stated his belief that Britain is “addicted to sentencing,” anyway.
The replacement of many of these criminals with those arrested during the riots triggered by the Southport stabbing also means that officials “will be lucky to get 12 months before … [prisons] are full again,” according to Prison Governors’ Association president Tom Wheatley.
And overcrowded prisons are just one of the many issues besetting Britain’s justice system.
Attempts to “smash the gangs” behind tens of thousands of illegal Channel crossings are likely to be just as unsuccessful, since the National Crime Agency—which is at the forefront of Starmer’s illegal migration ‘plan’—is “on its knees,” too.
That is according to a new report, which suggests that the implications of the government not increasing funding and support for the law enforcement agency would be “potentially catastrophic.”
This body—like those in most other sectors—was badly let down by the previous Tory administrations. There is, to date, little to suggest that Starmer’s team will be any different.
