There were jails in Britain “On the verge of collapse” After three occasions after Rishi sunakThe final government is Refused to cut numbers In jail, an independent review by a prison guard has revealed.
Dame Anne Over, former Chief Inspector of Jails, wrote His 72-page report Title ‘Independent Review of Jail Capacity’ Congested system Autumn was “in crisis” between 2023 and summer of 2024.
At one point, there were less than 100 space left in adult men’s prisons, many times with the network “moving very close to the edge of the capacity” and “within three days of meltdown”, the report states. It is at around 97.5 per capacity, despite the introduction of several early release plans of Labor.
The report found that the authorities were so concerned about the potential breakdown that he maintained an audit of every decision and document, “if there was a public or parliamentary inquiry”, the report found in the report.
The interview for the review found that former ministers and senior officials repeatedly refuse to refuse contingency plans “expressed disappointment and sometimes anger”, many people are sure that the strategy of delayed from 10 to 10 was intentionally.
“Many believed that the default situation was to reduce the situation as much as possible, with the result that the system repeatedly reached the verge of collapse,” Dame Anne said.
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In February, the commission, reviews by Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood stated that ministers only tied up for early release powers when the jails were truly overwhelmed.
“Although departmental ministers were assured by mid -2023 that some forms of initial release were both necessary and immediate, the essential Prime Minister was the agreement, which was not the upcoming until the system was within three days of possible collapse, and only in the old stages,” Dame Anne wrote.
From between 2023, Alex chalkThose who served as the Secretary of the Justice at that time, allegedly urged the government to approve an initial release scheme to free the standards that set the standard. But the report found that his proposals were repeatedly reprimanded.
“Without any exception, all those reviews expressed disappointment and sometimes angry at reluctant to accept and then worked on a well-written and adjacent crisis, or to avoid any consistent plan to avoid it,” Dam Anne
After the general election was called in May 2024, the report revealed that Mr. Sunak called an emergency cobra meetings to discuss “emergency powers” to leave the prisoners early, which should quickly free the system.
The report revealed, “This may be necessary to reduce the risk of public disorder when the criminal justice system collapses during the election campaign.”
The Sunak administration later deployed initial release plans on three occasions, using kind base provisions to reduce pressure as jails near the jails.
Labor Minister Ms. Mahmood said that “The final orthodox government said barely to run our jails.”
He said: “He added less than 500 cells to the prison property in 14 years, released more than 10,000 prisoners under a veil of privacy, and brought our jails close to total collapse on countless occasions.”
A spokesperson of the Conservative Party said: “In the office, the conservatives heard the demand of the public properly to see the criminals punished with the appropriate sentences, and we had a plan to use jails abroad to deal with the issues of capacity. Labor abolished those plans and instead left back the violent criminals on their streets.
“Labor is not serious about dealing with these issues. They blocked our exile bill, which would have made the exile of all foreign criminals mandatory. While labor and reforms want less sentences, orthodox will not apologize for ensuring that heinous criminals are placed on our streets and behind bars.”
