Alarm about an early re -publication of prisoners called back, while overcrowding with the prison crisis deepens Prison and probation

Criminals who have re -released restrictions on probation assistants into the probation in the government of the government after new measures to facilitate overcrowding.

Sources of justice say that despite the continuing early appearance scheme and trying to transform more criminals into open prisons, the prisons are lawn in the direction of another capacity crisis.

Last month, the officials were instructed to trigger a new guideline that aims to shorten the time that the prisoners spend in prison after the recall after the previous publication. The observer Understand that more than 1,000 inmates are considered for the new system, and as soon as it is fully implemented, around 400 perpetrators could be cheered up at a certain point in time.

A probation helper has triggered the alarm through the process, which deals with the reviews of the probation committee, whether prisoners can be released again, and instead she sees it freed it from the representatives of the Minister of Justice.

The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that he would cause the release of criminals that “cannot be managed safely in the community”.

“It puts pressure on the probation helper to change their judgment and recommend the re -publication of people who should not be freed,” he added.

“There are no exceptions to terrorist offenders, sexual criminals, domestic abuse, stalking … You could have examined people because new crimes are released again.” “”

Internal instructions from the observer Says that criminals are justified, if they are rated as a “low risk of serious relapses”, it is not known that they are a “high risk of serious damage” and are not examined because of a “serious further crime”.

“If you are accused and/or examined for another crime, the prisoner does not rule out [from the scheme]”, The document says.

Prisoners, the living conditions and extended or indefinite punishments that are given particularly dangerous criminals are excluded from the program. The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) said that an earlier version of politics was used for 1,000 and 1,600 re -publications per year until there was a steep decline from 2020.

The decline contributed to an increasingly held person in prison in the call back, who were at a record of almost 13,000 in England and Wales by the end of last year.

A political source, however, said that the number of inmates published by the conservative government was “anemic”, since the unity of the HM prison and the probation helper (probation assistant) was “risk avers” for the decision of the Minister of Justice.

The probation helper accused the government of building the new program because it was “confused” about the prison capacity. “Early publication does not make as much difference as expected, and even if checking the conviction in the next few weeks will take the new law for months,” he added. “You will be crossed from June, so we don't know what you will do next.”

The Moj has announced that a new prison of 1,500 capacities in Yorkshire, HMP Millsike, is opened within weeks and that other prisons were expanded by the construction of new house blocks. Mark Fairhurst, chairman of the prison officer association, said the building program would relieve the overcrowding if it were to plan, but that an emergency contingency of keeping prisoners in police cells was triggered in the northeast and northwest of England last month.

He warned that HMP Millsike in Full Sutton near York can only be populated with a rate of around 50 inmates per week so that new employees and processes are certainly “entering into bed”. “HMPPS restored its capacity gold [command group] Because it becomes dodgy again. If it goes on like this, we will be full again until summer, ”added Fairhurst.

In a report published on Friday by the committee for public accounts, male prisons are “alarming full” and that the internal forecast of the Moj predicts that, despite early publication measures, they will no longer have a place until the beginning of 2026. The watchdog said that “completely unrealistic” expansion plans for prison apply five years late and 4.2 billion GBP on the budget, so that the government in the review of Gauke conviction “completely dependent on uncertain future requests for demand”.

The Moj said that the new politics was necessary because prisoners who could be managed safely outside the prison waited too long for decisions of the probation committee. It was said that only inmates was a low risk of serious crimes, and the probation workers would carry out full checks and present management plans before they approved re -publications.

A MOJ spokesman added: “This change will return the recall system to the company as in the 2010s, whereby the correct protective measures are available to protect the public. It will ensure that we have cells for the dangerous offenders who have to be in prison. “