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Ben Jennings on the prison overcrowding crisis in England and Wales – cartoon

The number of prisoners released by mistake has more than doubled in one year, official figures show

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Ben Jennings on the prison overcrowding crisis in England and Wales – cartoon

The number of prisoners released by mistake has more than doubled in one year, official figures show

The Guardian
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I wet myself with laughter last night when I saw this on the news. (It's not funny, really.) It's typical incompetent #Labour and their smoke-and-mirrors antics.
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Dozens let out of prison under emergency release scheme were freed by mistake

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Probation and police services brace for ‘ticking time bomb’ as 1,700 prisoners

Police chiefs warn officers have been plunged into ‘storm’ not of their making

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Prison population hits record high as unions slam half-baked and unworkable idea to send convicts to Estonia | The Independent
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Prison population hits record high as unions slam half-baked and unworkable idea to send convicts to Estonia

Dame Angela Eagle , the Home Office minister, refused to deny reports that some inmates could serve their sentences in the eastern European country, but admitted there were too few places in UK prisons

The Independent
Exporting prisoners to Estonia? What next? Sending benefit claimants to Vietnam?

Labour sending prisoners to Estonia is the same as the Tories' Rwanda plan: exporting anyone who capitalists don't deem productive enough

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#England #PrisonOvercrowding emergency measures come into force

Ministers activate #OperationEarlyDawn, allowing defendants to be held in police cells as more sentenced over #riots
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/19/england-prison-overcrowding-emergency-measures-come-into-force
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England prison overcrowding emergency measures come into force

Ministers activate Operation Early Dawn allowing defendants to be held in police cells as more sentenced for role in riots

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This is all a bit of a mess.

And at this stage, the blame for this mess lies squarely at the door of the previous Tory government.

I hope Starmer's government tackles the root cause: that we're locking up too many people.

One thing they could do would be to decriminalise drugs. 17% of the prison population are there for drug offences, so that would make a huge difference.

But I bet they won't.

#Prisons #PrisonOvercrowding

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/19/england-prison-overcrowding-emergency-measures-come-into-force

England prison overcrowding emergency measures come into force

Ministers activate Operation Early Dawn allowing defendants to be held in police cells as more sentenced for role in riots

The Guardian

'#Crisis measures to tackle #English #PrisonOvercrowding imminent, says union

#POA chair says ministers could declare as soon as Monday that #OperationEarlyDawn is coming into force'
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/18/prison-overcrowding-emergency-measures-imminent-union
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Crisis measures to tackle English prison overcrowding imminent, says union

POA chair says ministers could declare as soon as Monday that Operation Early Dawn is coming into force

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