Prisoners Freed Early (Again)

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look at the release of more prisoners to help ease overcrowding in jails. The government is releasing 1,100 more prisoners early, in the second wave of emergency releases since September. It comes as the Justice Secretary announced a review of sentencing with a focus on new forms of punishment outside of jails, including a form of house arrest. Adam is joined by home and legal correspondent Dominic Casciani, and former director of public prosecutions Lord Ken Macdonald.

Also, Adam speaks to Marianna Spring about the final two weeks of the US Presidential election. And reveals how Newscast will be covering the election, including with the return of Remoter Voter. You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers.

You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Gemma Roper and Anna Harris. The technical producer was Hannah Montgomery. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello, time for a new gimmick.
0:06.8	Or even better than that, the revival of an old gimmick
0:09.7	in a new bigger way.
0:11.2	Do you remember during the UK general election we had a
0:13.5	remoter voter where we heard from you your reasons why you couldn't vote in
0:17.7	person on the 4th of July and we had people who were remote voters so maybe we're
0:22.2	just like 10 miles down the road but
0:24.4	couldn't get to the polling station then we had the remoter voters who were
0:27.8	further away and then we had the remotest voters who were people who were like
0:31.7	sailing the Atlantic or counting birds in the
0:35.3	seashows or spending seven months in Antarctica. All real examples by the way
0:40.3	not made up. We decided we're going to rebrand it as Remotive Voter USA.
0:46.3	So with the presidential election approaching, we want to hear from you your reasons why you
0:51.4	cannot turn up to your US polling station in person.
0:55.2	And it'll be an interesting test to see how many of you are actually listening in America
0:59.6	or whether we've got some work to do to take newscast to America which stay tuned we might be doing that
1:05.3	anyway you know where to send them to it's newscast at BBC.co. UK or you can
1:10.7	watsap us and because you might be watsapping us from abroad the number is plus 4.330
1:17.0	one two three nine four eight zero and there will be plenty more news from the USA and from the UK in this episode of
1:25.8	Newscast.
1:26.8	Which is not remote, is coming from the Newsscast.
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