Prison overcrowding triggers emergency measures

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🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The fallout from the riots continues as the numbers being processed by the justice system have led to emergency measures being triggered by the government. What does this mean and, given the prison system was at breaking point even before the riots, what happens next?

Also on the podcast, the six Tory leadership contenders have found something they all agree on: opposition to Labour's proposed change to winter fuel allowance. What does this tell us about future political battles?

James Heale and Isabel Hardman join Cindy Yu to discuss. As Cindy mentions in the episode, the journalist Chris Atkins - who was jailed for five years for tax offences - appeared on The Spectator's food and drink podcast Table Talk to talk about his experience.

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0:31.0	I'm Cindy U
0:32.0	and today I'm joined by James Hill and Isabel Hardman.
0:34.6	So this morning we are hearing about Operation Early Dawn.
0:38.0	Isabel is a tough start to the week for the Labour government. Tell us about the
0:41.1	operation. Yes, so this is an emergency measuring response to a complete lack of prison spaces.
0:48.0	It's been put in place in most of the north of England, so northeast Yorkshire,
0:52.8	Cumbria, Lancashire, Manchester, Merseys and Cheshire.
0:55.8	It's when police are releasing suspects on bail rather than taking them to a court hearing and also suspects being kept in police cells
1:08.0	rather than moved into prisons as well. So it just shows quite how over- prisons are and obviously the reason this has
1:14.8	happened is because of the writing because of the swift justice that is being
1:20.0	meted out to rioters obviously prison cells are filling up again and so this has
1:26.1	happened much earlier than expected but it was something that had been on the cards anyway.
1:31.6	James how much did the riots make things worse?
1:33.8	Because as Isabel says, you know, the Justice Secretary of Brennan Mahmood, as soon as she's
1:37.9	coming to her role, has been saying about talking about this overcrowding issue.
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