Labour Frees 26,000 Prisoners Early – Hundreds Jailed for More Than 10 Years Are Released
Labour’s early-release scheme has already freed more than 26,000 criminals – including hundreds of serious offenders serving over a decade. The Mail has the story.
Astonishing figures for the soft-justice programme suggest 45,000 could have their sentences cut in its first year.
For the first time it can be revealed that 248 convicts sentenced to 14 years or more have already been let out, despite the seriousness of their offending and the severity of their punishment.
Under the scheme, a criminal given 14 years by a court will serve just five and a half years.
In addition, 490 criminals handed between ten and 14 years have been freed early under the programme, as have almost 1,000 who were handed terms of between seven and ten years, according to the Ministry of Justice figures.
On average, 3,500 criminals a month are released – or more than 150 each working day.
It means the total is already likely to have hit 40,000, when projected figures for April to August are taken into account.
By the time the programme has been running for a full year the total is likely to hit an estimated 44,785 at current rates. …
After the scheme began, 3,785 were freed in September and 5,366 in October, which included backdated releases.
Since then, an average 3,461 a month have been let out early – 26,456 in all. …
The scheme allows offenders to be freed after serving 40% of their sentence rather than the previous 50%. …
Ms Mahmood is drawing up new soft-justice measures that could allow even greater sentence discounts – including for killers and rapists. Tens of thousands of other criminals would dodge jail altogether.
Under the plan, published in May, courts will no longer impose jail terms of less than 12 months other than in “exceptional circumstances”.
Criminals convicted of serious violence or sex offences would be freed after half their term, rather than the current three-quarters point.
This lower automatic release date would apply to offenders convicted of “rape, manslaughter, soliciting murder, attempted murder and wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm”.
Stop Press: To flood the streets of Britain’s towns and cities with 3,000 criminals a month isn’t overflow, says Philip Flower in the Mail– it’s a tidal wave.
Not going to lie, the guy in the photo looks suspiciously like a Muslim convert to me. It’s the ginge + beard that’s the giveaway. Meanwhile, I’m very reluctant to believe these figures are real, and that knife crime and theft have actually decreased in London. More likely is the Met are arresting less crims because all their manpower is taken up policing Lefty mass protests. And note which significant category of crime he’s left off the list;
”The latest figures show robbery, theft, residential burglary and knife crime are down in London, but there’s still a long way to go before I’m satisfied.
Backed with record funding from City Hall, the Met is putting high-visibility policing at the heart of fighting crime.”
A freedom fighter. We will remember her. Statues must be raised to our people after the Great Civil War has cleared out the Augeam stables of the establishment traitors.
I presume that with the announcement of deportation without appeal until they are in their country of origin, our lying charlatan of a prime minister will never sign another letter begging that murdering rapists and drug dealers be allowed to stay in this country as he has done in the past. Is there no bounds to this man’s deceit
Would the net effect be that the judges will go for the maximum available, to cross balance the likely outcome during the sentence? I.e.play it safe to avoid what future politicians might do.
The most striking figure is that Foreign Nationals make up about 10% of those released early presumably meaning they make up 10% of the prison population. I’m sure that foreign nationals, as opposed to British citizens of foreign heritage make up a lot less than 10% of the population even after years of the Tory’s and now Labour’s open door policy.
Grim Ace
8 months ago
Build prison camps cheaply. Barbed wire and high, double fences. Tazer armed guards.wooden huts, basic beds and bedding. Grow their own veg, repair their own clothes, etc.
And the same for the illegal, alien scumbags we are putting in expensive hotels. But 3 layers of fences and lethally armed guards. I’ve had enough. We must get very, very harsh on crime and illegal invaders.
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Not going to lie, the guy in the photo looks suspiciously like a Muslim convert to me. It’s the ginge + beard that’s the giveaway. Meanwhile, I’m very reluctant to believe these figures are real, and that knife crime and theft have actually decreased in London. More likely is the Met are arresting less crims because all their manpower is taken up policing Lefty mass protests. And note which significant category of crime he’s left off the list;
”The latest figures show robbery, theft, residential burglary and knife crime are down in London, but there’s still a long way to go before I’m satisfied.
Backed with record funding from City Hall, the Met is putting high-visibility policing at the heart of fighting crime.”
https://x.com/Con_Tomlinson/status/1954830412024254614
In the meantime, Lucy Connolly is still in jail, for a tweet.
I believe it’s obligatory to say “vile tweet”?
A freedom fighter. We will remember her. Statues must be raised to our people after the Great Civil War has cleared out the Augeam stables of the establishment traitors.
Political prisoners are there because they are very dangerous …. to the ruling regime.
Violent criminals are there because they are dangerous to the public.
So it’s obvious to the ruling regime that the priority is to keep the political prisoner in jail, and to release the violent criminals.
I presume that with the announcement of deportation without appeal until they are in their country of origin, our lying charlatan of a prime minister will never sign another letter begging that murdering rapists and drug dealers be allowed to stay in this country as he has done in the past. Is there no bounds to this man’s deceit
He says what his clients want him to say
Or his masters…
But if you write a tweet criticising the useless UK-loathing Starmer or his chum Hermer, you’ll rot in jail for years.
Would the net effect be that the judges will go for the maximum available, to cross balance the likely outcome during the sentence? I.e.play it safe to avoid what future politicians might do.
Hopefully clearing the decks for the Palestine Action criminals.
Slimy Mail strikes again with its picture of a white prisoner, ignoring national data on ethnicity and crime rates.
Gotta make space for tweeters of hurty words.
They have to make room for us…
The most striking figure is that Foreign Nationals make up about 10% of those released early presumably meaning they make up 10% of the prison population. I’m sure that foreign nationals, as opposed to British citizens of foreign heritage make up a lot less than 10% of the population even after years of the Tory’s and now Labour’s open door policy.
Build prison camps cheaply. Barbed wire and high, double fences. Tazer armed guards.wooden huts, basic beds and bedding. Grow their own veg, repair their own clothes, etc.
And the same for the illegal, alien scumbags we are putting in expensive hotels. But 3 layers of fences and lethally armed guards. I’ve had enough. We must get very, very harsh on crime and illegal invaders.