Prisoners should be allowed to jump the housing queue as part of efforts to cut crime, Sadiq Khan has said. The Telegraph has more.
The Mayor of London said that despite there being “a big shortage of housing in London”, some prisoners ought to “jump in the queue to get housing to avoid them reoffending again”.
On Tuesday, about 1,750 prisoners were freed under the Government’s early release scheme – which sees offenders freed 40% of the way through their sentence rather than halfway.
The comments come amid huge pressure on housing in the capital and an escalating homelessness crisis. In London, one in 50 are currently homeless.
However, lack of housing is one of the main reasons that those released from prison are recalled or go on to reoffend.
Prisoners released into homelessness are significantly more likely to breach their licence conditions because of missed appointments and breaking curfews. They are also more likely to succumb to a drug or alcohol addiction.
Claiming benefits and securing work is also more difficult without a permanent address, in turn raising their likelihood of returning to crime.
Martin Jones, the Chief Inspector of Probation, said that offenders freed under the Government scheme were “almost bound” to be sent back to jail “within days or weeks” because “things will go wrong in the community” and they would breach the terms of their licence.
Worth reading in full.
Great idea, Sadiq. Any other ideas for rewarding crime while you’re at it, or do you think a house after an early release should be enough?
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No prisoners should be locked up to cut crime, while it is law abiding citizens that should be top of the housing queue. Liberal Progressive twerps always seem to turn the natural order of things upside down in their drive to destroy what we have come to know in the western world as “Civilisation”
What i find strange is that we’re not hearing of any female prisoners getting out on early release, or is it not within women’s prisons that there’s the supposed over-crowding issue? In which case, doesn’t that speak volumes?🤔
“B-b-but, the feminization of society made me do it, your honour!”🤦♀️
All I’ll say is if Khant or even Starmer were women, we’d never hear the last of it from a certain quarter.🙄
I am just watching Charlie Peters on GB News reporting on sentencing for the human trash in Rotherham. If it had not been for GB news and Charlie in particular these scum would still be wandering free. But this is the tip of the iceberg as usual.
Yes I saw the sentences those perverts got, it was posted on Twitter. But this is pertinent to my above point. If they’d only deport these foreign-born scumbags then I’m very confident that’d solve the over-crowding issue. I’ve heard figures such as ”10,000 foreign-born prisoners” are languishing in British jails, but I’m not sure if that’s correct. But what they do instead, on top of releasing dangerous scumbags early, is import more criminals ( and a percentage are obviously going to commit crimes, as we’re seeing in real time and past crime stats in various countries back that up ), by far and away of the male variety ( I’ve literally yet to see any women or young kids come off those boats ) so how in God’s name is that meant to help society as a whole, never mind the over-crowded men’s prisons? It’s like mopping up the water from an overflowing bath before it occurs to you to turn the ruddy taps off!
Don’t forget that they will be out in 4 years under 2TStarmer! They should have life sentences without possibility of release.
And pull the plug!
Looking at a photo of a row of terraced houses in Rotherham where English people used to live, made me think, “None of those horrible things would have happened to all those thousands of English children, if no Pakistani Muslim had ever been allowed to settle in Britain.”
Except for our cousins in Australia, Canada and New Zealand, the Commonwealth has brought nothing but disaster to England and the English people.
“Prisoners should be allowed to jump the housing queue as part of efforts to cut crime, “
This is an incentive to commit crime.
If you wanted to cut the likelihood of re-offending then perhaps you should ‘resettle’ the ex-offender (and their immediate family) in another part of the country away from their old lifestyle and friends. That does seem quite draconian though – unless it works.
How about making them serve the full sentence so that they actually decide “F..k no way am I going back in there”
How about sending them to Antarctica?
It’s a nice idea, but has long been tried by social services all over the country. Criminals with or without their families are given housing somewhere far away to get rid of them, and the new local councils are given extra money for housing them, but they just join the new local network of drug dealers and criminal gangs, and cause the same problems as before, until they are moved on again, or back where they came from.
What really did work, according to police, was keeping all the drug dealers, paedophiles and prostitutes all together in one place out in the countryside, so they couldn’t endlessly harass the peaceful “normies” in the small towns and villages. Instead, they focused on just harassing each other, and the police could deal with them much more efficiently.
But “No!”, the Social Justice Warriors and Bleedin’ Heart Liberals cried, wringing their hands. “You must carefully place all the criminals in amongst the normal families with young children, and pensioners just trying to enjoy a peaceful retirement, and preferably near schools, so that the criminals can be rehabilitated and re-integrated into society, benefitting from the good influence of the “normies”.
But what always happens is just the opposite: The criminals gang up against the “normies”, and drag everyone down with them. It happens even on brand new housing estates. First they move in the drug addicts, then the dealers and paedophiles, then the male & female prostitutes who follow wherever the drug dealers are, and they soon turn a lovely peaceful neighbourhood into a cess pit of evil.
WHAT a Cucking Funt !!! A place man doing what he’s paid to do !! Cittle Lunt !!!
If we sent the illegal immigrants packing perhaps some of their current hostel/hotel accommodation could be freed up for our own citizens who desperately require assistance – not just released prisoners.
If we stopped jailing people for failing to observe the approved groupthink we could ensure offenders who put the public at risk could be retained in prison until such time as they could be rehabilitated to look after themselves without endangering the public.
Charity begins at home and prison is not just about incarceration but about reflection, reparation and rehabilitation back into society. Sadly prisons nowadays seem to turn out more radicalised antisocial characters than reformed individuals.
As long as there are British homeless on the streets and citizens stuck in moldy, unfit for habitation housing, migrants ( and prisoners ) should absolutely not be stepping over these law-abiding British people to secure social housing. To say that’s unethical would be the understatement of the century;
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1834675901172183454
Also, regarding the money being spent on migrants, this is just one example, but how many of these contracts are there for refurbishment of migrant centres and accommodation going on across the UK? Just this one is costing 70 million pounds. Doesn’t it make what they’re doing to pensioners even more disgraceful?
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/65f6a464-3cb5-43cf-9323-d548459842ef?origin=SearchResults&p=1
Another example of how there really is no limit to the budget when it comes to spending money on migrants. 15 million on a reintegration programme;
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/7b557ad8-fb58-4a55-9faa-684a69f738a4?origin=SearchResults&p=1
This is an example of the programme. So if all these Pakistani rapists were to be deported ( fat chance! ) is this what would be expected to happen to them?
https://www.irara.org/wp-content/uploads/Home-Office-Reint-Prog-Info-Pakistan.pdf
Crime pays.