Jesus H Christ.
TBF, I don't think Lammy personally supervises prisoner release, and he's only been in the job for a month or so, in this case the fault may lie elsewhere.
Perhaps taxes need to be raised in order to ensure proper staffing of prisons whilst capital budgets can be increased to build new ones.
Oh he’s incompetent alright.
So it ever was, everyone wants A1 service but no one wants to pay their share.
Unfortunately, we don't get to run the Algerian justice system, so he'll get released the moment he arrives.
Daniel Khalife escaped comically under the Tories, don't remember much uproar.
No argument taxes need to go up. But it is also required the money raised is spent correctly and not squandered on things like HS2 and keeping illegal immigrants in hotels.
Anyone would think the system had been deliberately underfunded, understaffed and undertrained to create a backlog so donors could make billions in contracts for the likes of Bibby Stockholm and various hotel chains, confecting the current crisis, which, by the way, is getting better, although that's not the news some want to hear or accept.
The Tories released hundreds of them as you damn well know but hey anything to make a point. Prisons are overwhelmed and no doubt you'll scream blue murder when taxes are put up to deal with things like this.
ah right, so it's the polices fault for not dealing with the criminal gangs of asylum seekers pretty much running amok up and down the country, but it's not the prisons fault for incorrectly releasing another dangerous immigrant to roam our streets.
If you want to believe that particular corrupt conspiracy fantasy, you'll also have to believe that Sunak, and the rest of the previous government, were happy to set fire to their political careers so that Civil Servants could shovel money into the pockets of various contractors, none of which would be of any benefit to the ministers you apparently think were involved in the decision.
Far be it for me to defend Labour but sentencing has become so complicated overwhelmed prisons can't cope. Those released have been on short sentences in the main and could be serving 30/40/50% of their tariff it is rarely clear. Those released have always been relatively minor offenders unless you enjoy screaming hysteria.
Someone beat me to it already post 19.
Yes, I'm happy to believe it. What's Sunak doing now?
Then you must exist in your own private fantasy world.
He’s made a really cracking start though, hasn’t he?
A 45 month sentence for fraud and released on the same day he was sentenced? By crikey that is one hell of a lump of remission, don’t you think?
Says the man who said there was no ministerial involvement in the Fast Track scheme
He said sorry so the remission seems fair. I hope the poor sod had somewhere to go he must have been mystified by events. Most a still minor offenders on short sentences though.
As I already explained there's been so much chopping and changing on early releases the system has collapsed. The left hand clearly doesn't know what the right is doing but here we are. We got here by Tory austerity and incompetence and everybody knows that. The emergency measures required to stop the CJS collapsing were done in panic mode I'll grant you that.
I am not looking for an argument bill, but it all depends on what you call minor offenders. The offence must have been serious enough to warrant a prison sentence, so probably isn’t that minor. If you’re the victim of any offence it doesn’t seem minor to you. I did appreciate your little joke at the top of your post by the way.
The fraud offender was released due to a clerical error by the court who recorded his sentence as suspended. The other was a flasher who didn't follow a court order and will be deported. It's a sh*tshow but apparently we can't afford to fix it or the Bond Monster will get cross and eat us all. FWIW a minor crime is a sentence of less than 4 years and a petty crime less than a year so I'm told.
As I wrote in an earlier post, we’re going to hell in a handcart. Either leaving the ECHR or a major overhaul of same won’t cure our myriad of problems, but it would be a good start.
I don’t know if they would be able to get back in, it appears it’s easier to get out than in.
He had previously produced a prisons repot on BME prisoners which set equalities in prisons back years.
Simply not true.
As I posted previously under recent sentencing laws foreign national prisoners up for deporting can be made ready before their release date.
Let’s just leave the cell doors open and they can come and go as they please.
They have been doing that for a number of years. I think they have recently decided as the cell doors are open, they may as well leave the front door open too.
The 45 month chap was English. The mistake this time was at the court. Some half wit put on the court computer his sentence was suspended. They must have thought that meant either hang him or let him go and they chose the latter.
That's right take the Governor out of Wandsworth for starters...
Ironically Wandsworth had the last working gallows in the system.
What has the ECHR got to do with UK sentencing policy?
there's a bloke trying to make a full time career in politics.
He obviously forgot his poppy yesterday as well he had to cadge one off a fellow MP how embarrassing.
