Mass Release of Prisoners Tomorrow Giving “Sleepless Nights to Domestic Abuse Victims”
Victims of domestic violence will be having “sleepless nights” before tomorrow’s mass release of prisoners, a Government adviser has warned, as a senior insider revealed a “high proportion” of them will be domestic abusers. The Times has the story.
Nicole Jacobs, the Domestic Abuse Commissioner, warned that about a third of survivors of domestic abuse whose perpetrators are due for release this week were likely to be unaware or unsupported.
In an interview with the Times, she said survivors of domestic violence were “paying the price” for the prisons overcrowding crisis and risked being forgotten about. She said domestic abuse victims and survivors were particularly vulnerable because their perpetrators were more likely to have contact with them, know where they lived and work or know their family, compared with other criminals being freed.
About 1,700 prisoners will be freed on Tuesday when the Government’s new early-release scheme comes into effect, almost double the number that are normally freed from jail in a whole week.
The scheme, announced as part of Labour’s immediate solution to the prisons overcrowding crisis, will release prisoners serving fixed-term tariffs at the 40% stage of their sentence rather than 50%, the first time that the automatic release point for prisoners will fall below the halfway point.
It was announced eight weeks ago to give the Probation Service enough time to prepare. However, a senior probation officer has told the Times that by the time the Prisons Service had determined who was eligible, many colleagues had been given only four weeks to prepare for offenders confirmed for release. The officer said a colleague had been given just one week’s notice of an offender being released next week.
Shabana Mahmood, the Justice Secretary, sought to limit the number of domestic abusers being released under the scheme by excluding prisoners serving sentences for crimes such as non-fatal strangulation, coercive control, stalking, harassment or breach of a restraining or non-molestation order.
However, there are no measures in place to prevent domestic abusers being released who were convicted of broader offences that are not specific to domestic violence. It means those convicted of offences such as assault or criminal damage, for example, will qualify for the early-release scheme.
The Ministry of Justice has said it was unable to calculate the number of domestic abusers who would be released because it was difficult to distinguish them from other violent criminals convicted of the same cohort of offences.
However, a senior Government source said: “A high proportion will be domestic abusers.”
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It is almost certain that a few of those early released prisoners will re-offend almost immediately. When the news eventually percolates through the government filters, as is almost certain, how will the news be ‘spun’ or will there be another flip flop?
Letting violent people out to make room for people who said hurty words is going to look a really, really, bad idea.
Yes, that’s what this Prof of Criminology says on GB News. More than a few, I suspect. Plus, if they’ve previously been sent down two or more times then doesn’t that just prove that prison doesn’t work as a deterrent for many and they’re more likely to reoffend because they’re not scared of going back inside?
I don’t want any innocent people being harmed but I would like to see the highest rate of reoffending possible take place off the back of these mass releases. It needs to be shown as the epic disaster that many are predicting. That way it’ll come back to bite the government on the arse and there’s not really any wriggling out of that for Starmer, is there?
I’ve never understood if it’s all about the over-crowded prisons, why can’t they deport foreign-born criminals who aren’t British citizens? Is that naive? I don’t think that’s naive;
”’50% of those in prison custody have at least 15 previous offences…’
Professor James Treadwell on the impact of the release of over 1,700 prisoners tomorrow, and their chances of re-offending.”
https://x.com/GBNEWS/status/1833220169587462507
I don’t case if prison acts as a deterent but I observe that they do not serve their given sentences so maybe a longer term would be more effective.
What I am interested in is the absence from these people from the strteets so the rest of us can have some peace from them. Prison definitely can work in that way but only if you keep them inside.
Maybe the same politicians who decided to rapidly increase the population of the country shoulkd have thought about building additional prison capacity. We know they have always thought that immigrants were inherently better people than us but they must have expected an increase in crime.
That would be greater than a proportionate increase because those arriving were:
The result of the elite’s failure is more suffering from victims last time around and new victims in society.
The prison release has been organised in the expectation that crime will increase. The intention is to stoke fear and anger. All deliberate.
If Stramer used the same excessive zeal to deal with knife crime that he did to arrest people and have them locked up in 48 hours for Tweets, then the prisons would not be anywhere near to full. Because a massive Stop and Search campaign would have made it insane to carry weapons knowing that in 48 hours you would be in the clink for 3 years (at least).
The government puppeticians should be held directly responsible for any crime that any of these low life commit from the day of their release
They are as culpable as hiring a hit man to do your dirty work by knowingly realising these dangerous perps!
The government would be knowingly aiding and abetting crime
Lock up people who put a few hurty words on social media. Let out violent criminals because “there’s no space.”
The choice of a lunatic.
Well in this Governments eyes the biological female doesn’t exist they are exactly the same physique as a man, with the same strength, body profile etc, infact many of them have a penis, so these things called a woman which anyone and anything can be, therefore they dont really exist can take care of themselves.
Thank you for saying this. I know that there are male victims of domestic abuse but the majority (75%) are women. I also saw this story about this creature being released. Somebody out there really really hates women, and I’m not talking about the criminal.
https://www.upday.com/uk/murder-victims-mother-says-sadistic-killers-recommended-release-outrageous
Peter Hitchens in this well worth watching video notes that a long way back the view of the establishment on crime – now “victims of society” changed from how most of us see criminals – people to be locked up.
That a government can even think of doing what they are doing suggests he is right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtYZ2brdBX4