Free prisoners after serving 40% of their sentence? Feat. Ian Acheson | Storm Huntley

Should we free prisoners after they've served 40% of their sentence?

Labour is planning to do just that to ease prison overcrowding in England and Wales.

The new justice secretary - Shabana Mahmood - is due to set out the plans today amid concerns jails could run out of space within weeks.

To run smoothly, the system needs around 1,400 free cells in men's prisons, but reports suggest only 700 spaces are currently available.

At the moment, most prisoners can be released after serving 50% of their sentence, but Labour will release some non-violent offenders even earlier to "pull the justice system back from the brink of total collapse",

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