Government running out prison space?

[Bingoman]

The Government have ask Police station for the use of upto 400 cells as the Government admits they have run out of prison space I don't think you could even make this up

Government runs out of prison places and has to ask police for 400 cells

Ministers confirm they have launched the Operation Safeguard contingency plan for the first time since 2007.

news.sky.com

 

[weltweit]

I wonder how crowded existing prisons are?

 

[pbsmooth]

this seems to be the first major issue for the new govt. perfect territory for the right-wing press to pile-in on Labour being soft as they let out prisoners. interesting to hear how it has deteriorated surprisingly quickly. wonder what the longer term solution will be.

UK politics latest: Thousands of inmates to be freed as minister says prisons 'on point of collapse'

Some prisoners will be released after serving 40% of their sentence in a move to increase capacity, the justice secretary announces.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Pickman's model]

this seems to be the first major issue for the new govt. perfect territory for the right-wing press to pile-in on Labour being soft as they let out prisoners. interesting to hear how it has deteriorated surprisingly quickly. wonder what the longer term solution will be.

UK politics latest: Thousands of inmates to be freed as minister says prisons 'on point of collapse'

Some prisoners will be released after serving 40% of their sentence in a move to increase capacity, the justice secretary announces.

www.bbc.co.uk

Defining the whole of the UK as a prison

 

[nottsgirl]

this seems to be the first major issue for the new govt. perfect territory for the right-wing press to pile-in on Labour being soft as they let out prisoners. interesting to hear how it has deteriorated surprisingly quickly. wonder what the longer term solution will be.

UK politics latest: Thousands of inmates to be freed as minister says prisons 'on point of collapse'

Some prisoners will be released after serving 40% of their sentence in a move to increase capacity, the justice secretary announces.

www.bbc.co.uk

I’m not sure about that. I haven’t heard the Tories stick the knife in yet because it’s pretty obvious they left the justice system especially prisons, in a shocking state.

 

[pbsmooth]

I’m not sure about that. I haven’t heard the Tories stick the knife in yet because it’s pretty obvious they left the justice system especially prisons, in a shocking state.

 

[DaveCinzano]

TOTAL SOCIETAL COLLAPSE IMMINENT!!1!1;

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

If true seems like a good time to schedule in some major riots protests.

 

[WouldBe]

They could use porta cabins as a temp measure.

 

[two sheds]

TOTAL SOCIETAL COLLAPSE IMMINENT!!1!1;

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At least they showed the key news that Ollie Watkins has a girlfriend

 

[Humberto]

The 'rebuttal' in the Mail there (senior Tory 'source') starts with, 'there are hundreds of prison places available', which is a pretty small and unspecific number. In context there are approx 95,000 prisoners in the UK.

 

[gentlegreen]

I was going to suggest Rwanda - the Fail reported Estonia...

There are just 651 spare places available in prisons across the whole of England and Wales, new figures reveal as ministers consider renting cells in Estonia​

By Rory Tingle, Home Affairs Correspondent For Mailonline

Published: 16:54, 6 October 2023 | Updated: 02:11, 7 October 2023

There are just 651 spaces available in prisons, figures reveal

There are currently 88,016 people in jail across England and Wales - the highest number in 12 years.

www.dailymail.co.uk

daily mail prison places - Google Search

 

[Humberto]

That's last year's number I gave above, seems to have come down somewhat this year. It's expected to rise by 7,000 between May and November this year according to this though:

https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN04334/SN04334.pdf

 

[Dogsauce]

There’s some sense in Labour doing stuff like this as early as possible, get it out of the way during the ‘honeymoon period’ also a good time to bury bad news with the football likely to dominate the news over the next few days. Blunts the attack of the RW press a bit.

 

[SpookyFrank]

There’s some sense in Labour doing stuff like this as early as possible, get it out of the way during the ‘honeymoon period’ also a good time to bury bad news with the football likely to dominate the news over the next few days. Blunts the attack of the RW press a bit.

They have little choice. It was stated a while ago that the start of July was the point at which the system was likely to become completely overwhelmed. I wouldn't be surprised if that was a key part of Sunak's reasoning for calling the election in the first place.