The prison population has hit a new record high after an influx of rioters were jailed or remanded after last month’s disorder – as the Government prepares to release thousands of prisoners early due to overcrowding. The Telegraph has the story.
The news comes ahead of the biggest planned early release of offenders to ease overcrowding for more than a decade, with just 705 spare places left in adult male jails, and around 300 in women’s prisons.
Official figures showed that there were 88,521 men and women behind bars on Friday, 171 more than the previous record, set at the end of last week.
The prison population has risen by 1,025 people over the past four weeks and now stands at its highest level since weekly population data was first published in 2011.
The sharp rise is likely to have been driven by the number of people remanded in custody or given jail sentences following last month’s riots across the country.
The latest figures come just four days before the Government’s temporary early release scheme is due to come into effect on Tuesday September 10th.
Last week, adult male jails came close to running out of space with just 83 spots left, although that figure is now over 700. In both men’s and women’s prisons, there are 1,098 spaces spare out of an operational capacity of 89,619.
Some 2,000 prisoners will be freed on Tuesday, 40% through their sentences, rather than half under early release scheme. Between 2007 and 2010, the Labour government released 36,000 prisoners to tackle a similar overcrowding crisis.
The national 40% scheme, set out in new legislation introduced last month, will replace the ad hoc early release up to 70 days before the scheduled date introduced by the Tories earlier this year.
The policy will not apply to those convicted of sex offences, terrorism, domestic abuse or violent offences where the perpetrator has been jailed for more than four years.
It comes after the Telegraph revealed that the Ministry of Justice is considering renting prison places in foreign countries such as Estonia to help tackle the overcrowding crisis.
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It’s hard to disagree with those who say Democracy is a sham. Nobody voted for this and yet it’s foisted on us anyway. At least the pro-Pally f-wits in London are prepared to fight for the future they want. Everyone else just sits at home waiting to get shafted some more.
Actually Net Zero was in Labour and Tory manifesto’s. It is just that most people have no clue what is involved for their freedom and their prosperity. ——Most will probably think that there really is a climate crisis and all we need to do is get rid of fossil fuels and use wind and sun and everything will tick along just fine. ———-NOPE. IT WILL NOT
“London councils were the most likely to implement these charges, with responses revealing that at least 20 of the capital’s 32 boroughs have them in place.”
So, although many London councils claim to be against ULEZ they are nevertheless more than happy to screw their own people for not driving the correct car. In other words these sanctimonious so and so’s are lying barstewards who in reality are dancing to the same tune as the Khant.
Not damned bright enough to be aware of their own crude hypocrisy and lies.
A mini dump.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/a-beginners-guide-to-the-great-covid-con-part-5-matt-hancocks-role/
A short but grim read.
As many of us on here have stated Hancock is bang to rights on the Care Home murders – Democide.
And here’s another worthwhile dump:
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/news-you-might-have-missed/
The clue is in the title.
We are being pushed, perhaps purposely, towards pitchfork time! Everyone will have to become a bladerunner!
I’ve been driving around my local area over Xmas with family guests and have noticed a significant increase in both 20 mph zones and surveillance cameras everywhere since the summer. This in a rural area with a p*ss poor bus service and mostly narrow country lanes with few or no footpaths. Oh, and fuel in these parts is 20p/litre more than guests pay at home. Democracy has died, bureaucratic totalitarianism rules.
Green = Red. ———Public policies are strangling us with regulations, mandates and impoverishment with climate the hammer that nails us to the floor. The pathetic excuse that we are in a “climate emergency” is not just a slap in the face to hard pressed families depending on their car. It is 5 uppercuts from Mike Tyson. There is no tyranny worse than the one that terrorises you for your own good as these people never sleep.
Why only concentrate on tailpipe emissions. EV’s are heavier than an equivalent ICE and produce more tyre and road wear, so instead of a clear new diesel, a filthy EV that will have to drive at least 60,000 miles before it is ‘carbon-neutral,’ will be producing micro rubber and plastics from tyres while causing greater road wear. I say penalise EV drivers for their selfish actions.
Rest assured they will have to move onto this soon enough – as more and more people are forced into EVs (or nothing) they’re obviously not going to drop parking charges just like they’re not going to give up fuel duty, so they will come up with some way of ranking EVs also or simply charge everyone sky high rates if they can’t be bothered.
They certainly won’t give up as long as the majority of those that vote tend to vote for establishment parties. No sympathy can be extended to the inconveniences and costs experienced and endured by the unthinking establishment party voter. Apart from the EU referendum the British people haven’t tried boycotting the establishment line by voting for centre Right challenger parties but it is way past time they gave it shot in 2024.
“Councils argue that such charges are need to improve air quality and encourage people to use more sustainable forms of transport”———–The first part of that is dubious and the second requires that this “sustainable transport” is available 24 hours a day to every workplace and back straight to your home which IT IS NOT. —Where is the sustainable bus at 5.30 am to take people right to their place of work? Or at midnight to get home from late shifts or start night shifts? Why are we letting these phony planet savers away with this tyranny? People go out to work and have bought vehicles in good faith with hard earned money only for these eco parasites to come along and tell them they cannot use those vehicles instead of allowing them to come to the end of their natural life and is a diabolical disgrace.