Prisoners celebrate - but is early release good news?
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🗓️ 10 September 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Policing minister Dame Diana Johnson says the prisoners will serve the rest of their sentence under the strictest licensing conditions, but there are questions over whether this is a long-term solution as currently 2,000 prisoners are recalled every month for breaching their release licence.
Daily host Matt Barbet is joined by sky correspondent Mollie Malone who's been speaking to some of those set for early release, and home editor Jason Farrell explains the size of the issue the new government is facing when it comes to the state of our prisons.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Matt Barbette here on the Daily. We're returning to prisons today, which you think are going to be a bit emptier at the end of the day. |
| 0:07.7 | Between now next month, around 5,000 prisoners are going to be coming out early. They're doing 40% of their sentences instead of half their sentences, which they would have expected to do. |
| 0:18.8 | Naturally, this is being talked about as much in prisons as it is outside. We've made up some bags for your release just to help. So we've got |
| 0:26.9 | some tissues. A little notebook and a pen. Some toothpaste and a toothbrush. If you look online, |
| 0:36.7 | prisoners have come out today, |
| 0:38.3 | saying things like all they've done inside is eat and drink and put on weight, |
| 0:42.2 | or others are fearful of not having anywhere to go, |
| 0:45.2 | warning this is going to have a detrimental effect on society. |
| 0:48.6 | There are stories as well of prisoners attacking each other inside |
| 0:51.4 | just because they know that's the only way they're going to get a cell |
| 0:54.3 | all to themselves. So no surprise then that today's prisons report that's just come out coincidentally |
| 0:59.3 | on the same day shows us what we probably already knew. They paint a pretty grim picture of |
| 1:05.0 | what's going on inside our jails. It turns out the 30 out of 32 of those that were inspected |
| 1:10.6 | were poor or insufficiently good. |
| 1:13.6 | And the root problem is, of course, overcrowding. |
| 1:16.6 | But it's not the only significant issue. |
| 1:18.9 | Sky's home editor, Jason Farrell, will expand on all that a little bit later on. |
| 1:22.2 | But first today, alone, 1,700 prisoners will be out a bit sooner than they expected. |
| 1:28.2 | And our reporter, |
| 1:33.4 | Molly Malone, is outside His Majesty's Prison, Wonsworth. Molly, what's it been like down at Wonsworth today? What have you seen? Who's been turning up? Who's been leaving? What's going on? |
| 1:37.9 | So I've been at Wonsworth Prison for the last hour or so, and it seems that the kind of |
| 1:42.5 | flurry of releases that we saw this morning has |
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