LIVE: Shabana Mahmood Announces Sentencing Changes
Justice secretary Shabana Mahmood is announcing rule changes to sentencing in England and Wales. Early release…
The Gauke sentencing review is out in full next week and is expected to go further. MoJ interim permanent secretary Amy Rees says that male prisons are at 99% capacity and will run out of space by November…
- Mahmood says the government will build three new prisons starting this year.
- She says there will be “no return” to the releases seen last year.
- 1-4 year sentence recalls can only be returned to prison for a one-month period. With some exceptions…
- Reports that there will be changes to sentences: Well-behaved offenders will serve a third of their sentence in jail, then a third on “enhanced” licence subject to tags and curfews. The last third is on normal licence with recall potential.