BRiten is facing the biggest overhaul for punishment and criminal justice in a generation because the government accepts Gel string of recommendations to reduce congestion,
Many criminals will be seen in the shake-up, including some violent criminals, Serve less time in custody with maximum use of electronic tagging And punishment in the community, many are capable of earning credit for their release in exchange for good behavior.
It once again comes after jails The month of walking out of space, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood warned last week that “the total breakdown of law and order” was at risk, unable to arrest the police and was unable to send criminals to custody.
While the congested crisis may have forced his hand, many people working in the criminal judge will argue such reforms, but in recent decades, the “strict” story in British politics and media commentary in recent decades has left the gradual governments reluctant to function.
The average punishment length has almost doubled in the last 50 years, which is eager to increase punishment for crimes in part run by politicians by intervention of pieces that increase the most public outrage.
This has allowed the jail population to climb, while politicians continue to ignore the important question: is the jail working?
Last year in a major intervention, as the government was forced to quickly release the prisoners to quickly evacuate, four living former Lord Chief Justice called for “fundamental changes” in our approach to the policy of punishment, warning punishment inflation left us on a large scale of the American-style.
It has been widely accepted that complete with prisons and many prisoners were closed in their cells without any meaningful activity for 23 hours, many people leave custody as better criminals rather than better members of the society.
The package of measures prescribed in the review of independent punishment of David Gauk published today tries to take some steps to re -start the system on rehabilitation and reduce rehabilitation as well as reduce the punishment.
He urged the government to take “decisive action” to ensure that they would never be forced to rely on emergency release of prisoners.
Their plans, which aim to reduce the prison population to around 10,000, means that at standard prescribed sentences they will do one -third of their tenure in custody if they behave in jail. They will serve one and the last third on the license under supervision in the community, remembering if they resume.
Serious criminals who have been jailed for four years or more, including some sexual criminals, can be released under supervision on half the path.
In addition to extraordinary situations such as domestic misconduct cases, small sentences under 12 months will also be removed.
Although Ms. Mahmood is expected to accept most of the proposals of Gauk in principle, the government will reduce its recommendation to earn, the first release for the most dangerous criminals who already serve extended sentences.
For working measures, the government will need to invest heavy in overseas probation services – which will be expected to manage criminals in the community safely, including thousands of people who will be electronically tagged.
Chhaya Justice Secretary Robert Jenrich has described proposals as “getting out of the prison -free card” for dangerous criminals, saying that the convicts would “exemption so large that they would blush alde and lidal.”
However, prison reform campaigners, who have welcomed the proposals widely, need to further address the congestion crisis.
Pia Sinha, Chief Executive Officer of the Jail Reform Trust, represents the review “once in a generation as an opportunity and represents the” intelligent, phased approach “for rehabilitation.
He said, “These measures will encourage evidence-based policy and provide an important investigation on knee reactions to crime by politicians,” he said, but warned that the review does not address the prolonged “significant impact” on the jail’s population for a long time.
Andrea Coeper Casey, Chief Executive Officer of Howard League for Penal Reform, agreed that the proposal is a “good start”, but believes that it should be more including addressing the impact of uncertain sentences.
“If the government really wants to ensure that the country does not run out of jail places again, it should be the boulder and address the longest and uncertain sentences that have moved the criminal justice system to the brink of collapse,” he said.
In his report, Mr. Gauk noted “several liver”, which is out of the scope of his review, can reduce the gap between jail demand and supply – including addressing the plight of more than 2,500 prisoners serving imprisonment for public safety (IPP) sentences.
Independent Last week, the promotional frustration was revealed that they The service of IPP sentences is repeatedly excluded from prison reformsIncluding emergency changes to reduce the population announced last week.
Out of the 2,544 prisoners falling during the prison period, more than 1,500 recalls are inside.
The punishment review recommended immediate exile for foreign nationals, which is a three-year sentence or less, and further discovery of the use of the drug to suppress the sexual drives of sexual criminals, is currently being pilot in Southwest England.