Send more convicts to open prisons to ease overcrowding crisis in jails and reduce reoffending, urges Labour adviser
More convicts should be sent to low-security open prisons to ease overcrowding in jails and reduce reoffending, a Government adviser has urged. David Gauke, the ex-Tory justice secretary who is now leading Labour's sentencing review, claimed the current prisons crisis offered 'an opportunity' for change. Thousands of prisoners have been released early in recent months after Labour cut the proportion of sentences that inmates must serve behind bars Daniel Dowling-Brooks celebrates after being released outside HM Prison Swaleside on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, in October. He told reporters: 'Big up Keir Starmer' David Gauke, the ex-Tory justice secretary who is now leading Labour's sentencing review, claimed the current prisons crisis offered 'an opportunity' for change Mr Gauke told the newspaper: 'We don't make as much use of open prisons as we might do. But Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood recently admitted Britain's prison estate could still run out of cells within three years, even with the extra places.
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