Border Security minister Angela Eagle confirmed on Sky News reports that Labour has renewed Tory plans to farm out prisoners to Estonia. The ones who aren’t being let out early, that is…
When Alex Chalk announced the last government’s intention to use rented spaces in Eastern Europe estimates placed the cost well above that of housing a prisoner in England or Wales. Especially as the expectation is that the taxpayer will have to fund flights for visitors…
Estonia’s Justice Secretary is keen:
“The UK and Estonia have a history of successful international co-operation, and such a partnership would create further opportunities to benefit and learn from each other.”
The MoJ say “all viable options” are on the table. And they said globalisation was dead…
Last week Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced plans to release thousands of prisoners early by reducing the minimum sentence term spent in prison from 50% to 40%. A Tory plan that Guido revealed first back in May…
The public aren’t happy with it. New YouGov research finds that a whopping 71% oppose the policy. Only one in six (17%) are in support. It sits at the bottom of the list of preferred solutions to the overcrowding crisis…
This comes as the ONS drops crime statistics which show a 40% increase in theft, shoplifting at a two-decade high, and robbery up 8%. Most popular solutions include deporting foreign criminals and building more prisons. A far cry from the current policy – releasing convicts en masse into the streets…
As predicted, new Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced plans to release thousands of prisoners early. Labour will reduce the minimum sentence term spent in prison from 50% to 40%. Most prisoners currently serve 50% of their sentence in jail, with the remaining 50% being served on licence and under threat of being returned to prison…
Criminal justice liberals are over the moon. Pia Sinha, chief executive of the Prison Reform Trust, said:
“In this moment of crisis for the prisons system, the incoming government has had the good sense to listen to the advice of its officials and introduce further emergency measures to prevent dangerous levels of overcrowding and the criminal justice system literally grinding to a halt.”
Other left wing NGOs have been stacked up by Labour to issue positive comments. Let’s see how it goes down with the public…
Shabana Mahmood, the UK’s new Secretary of State for Justice, brings a troubling record to her new role. In 2014, she was accused of promoting “mob rule” after leading a protest backing the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, forcing a Sainsbury’s in Birmingham to close for hours. Taking the law into her own hands…
She later boasted of the Sainsbury’s shutdown to a rally:
“Last week I was with 200 activists outside in the centre of Birmingham and we lay down in the street and we lay down inside Sainsbury’s to say that we object to Sainsbury’s stocking goods from the illegal settlements and that they must stop. We managed to close down that store for 5 hours at peak time on a Saturday. This is how we can make a difference.”
At the time, she was slammed by Mike Freer, then MP for Finchley and Golders Green: “For any Parliamentarian to encourage mob rule as a way of protesting is shameful.” Is this the sort of enforcement of justice Mahmood will be promoting as the new Secretary of State?
