Limits of how long can some criminals can return to prison, in an attempt to stop the jail in England and Wales that run out of space, said the Secretary of Justice.
Shabana Mahmood said that an investment of £ 4.7 billion would finance more prisons, but said it would not be possible to “get out of this crisis.”
A senior official of the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) said that the government “will run out of prison in just five months of” time “if the action was not tasks.
According to the shake, the criminals remembered prison, for breaching their licenses will be released after a fixed period of 28 days In England and Wales.
Last week, the prison minister told the BBC that there would be no more emergency releases to treat the overcrowding in prisons.
But Mahmood today said the move releases around 1,400 places in prison and will buy time to review a “on the edge of the collapse.”
He warned that the deposit plans to start working in three prisons this year, it would not be possible to “build it from this crisis” and the government faced each other without spaces for male criminals in November.
She said that the last prison construction initiative would be founded by a capital investment of £ 4.7 billion.
Three prisons will be built using cash and work has begun in a place near HMP Garree in Leinteshire, he added.
It is likely that the changes of an upcoming review of the sentence, directed by former conservative minister David Gauke, only felt from the spring next year, he added.
Amy Rees, the permanent interim secretary of the Moj, said that in the “current trajectory” of the government “England” he will run out of prison for adult men, in November of this year. “
The prison population is 88,087 of an usable operational capacity of 89,442, according to the latest weekly official figures.
It is estimated that it will increase between 95,700 and 105,200 in March 2029, according to the government analysis published last year.
The changes announced on Wednesday would apply to criminals with sentences between one and four years, who have released their legs after fulfilling their minimum period, but remembered for violating their terms of their license.
Mahmood said the change would not apply to those who commit a more serious crime, or are considered to represent a high risk.
The Secretary of Justice of the Shadows, Robert Jenrick, said the announcement was “not protecting the public.”
He said that “governing is choosing, and today has chosen to free the first criminals who have repeated or violated their licenses.”
The president of the Association of Prison Officers (POA) said that building new prisons “will not improve the current population crisis.”
“The Government would be better to spend billions of taxpayers in the modernization of penitentiary heritage, finance a probation service with resources little resources, provide more safe mental health beds and ensure that we have solid community sentences saved,”
A victim, whose author was withdrawn from the market for violating his restriction order, said the measure was “outrageous” and some criminals would be given an easy way out without Dair’s time.
The announcement occurs only one week before Gauke’s independent sentence review publishes its proposals on how to deal with overcrowding.
It is understood that it is likely to recommend more community -based sentences to reduce dependence on imprisonment.
