184. Question Time: Why Britain Needs Shorter Prison Sentences

The Rest Is Politics

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🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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How do we solve the prisons crisis in the UK? Will Johnson and Sunak face charges for their lack of cooperation with the Covid inquiry? Should the Liberal Democrats run their campaign on rejoining the EU? Join Alastair and Rory as they answer all these questions and more on this week’s Question Time. TRIP Plus: Become a member of The Rest Is Politics Plus to support the podcast, receive our exclusive newsletter, enjoy ad-free listening to both TRIP and Leading, benefit from discount book prices on titles mentioned on the pod, join our Discord chatroom, and receive early access to live show tickets and Question Time episodes. Just head to therestispolitics.com to sign up, or start a free trial today on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/therestispolitics. Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics Email: restispolitics@gmail.com Producers: Dom Johnson + Nicole Maslen Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:21.0	Welcome to The Restless Politics question time with me, Rory Stewart.
0:25.0	And me, Alistair Campbell.
0:27.0	Now, Rory, have they been listening?
0:30.0	Red girl wants to know, has Rory been giving advice to Alex Chalk about prisons?
0:36.0	How have we reached such an appalling situation?
0:40.0	Richie Soonack's chancellor had known about prisons running out of capacity
0:44.0	and yet chose to fund, eat out to spread it about instead.
0:48.0	Nick Hodgeaw, why is it so difficult to build new prison spaces
0:52.0	and why have we run out of space?
0:54.0	Now, this is a story about judges apparently being told go easy on the prison sentences
0:59.0	and other prisoners being let out early because, frankly, our prisons are full.
1:05.0	Yeah, well, it's not just a story about that.
1:07.0	It's a story about something that I'm really proud that Alex Chalk is doing.
1:10.0	So when I was the minister for prisons and sentencing under David Gork,
1:16.0	we worked together to abolish short sentences.
1:19.0	So short sentences and prisons, that's people going into prison for six months.
1:23.0	The six-month sentences or 12-month sentences are absolutely terrible in every way.
1:29.0	In Durham prison, the average length of the day when I was the prison's minister
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