UK to Release Thousands of Prisoners Due to Overcrowding

par This Is Beirut, 12/07 20:04 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Charlie Taylor Justice System Keir Starmer Labour party Prison System Shabana Mahmood United Kingdom

Thousands of prisoners are to be released early from September in order to prevent the "collapse" of the prisons system, the UK's new justice minister announced on Friday. Shabana Mahmood said failure to do so risked the "total breakdown of law and order", with just 700 places left for men, and jails operating at 99 percent capacity since ...