I understand in a work touched with genius and thinking ?outside of the box? The Lord Chancellor, head of the new Ministry of Justice (MoJ), is expected to make an announcement about tackling overcrowding later this week.
I have inside information on this one ? a ?friend in high places? has let me know that in this new, daring plan all prisons are to be fitted with one of these: -
A Whitehall source has told the BBC that Lord Falconer is likely to say some non-violent offenders nearing the end of sentences are to be freed early.
An MoJ spokeswoman would neither confirm nor deny an early release plan.
According to the Times newspaper, "up to 2,000 prisoners serving less than four years" would leave jail early.
They were likely to be "burglars, fraudsters and drug dealers" but not "offenders convicted of violent or sex crimes", it added.
Labour clearly has no intention of building new prisons to house these people ? the overcrowding? story has been in the news for years. So what is the agenda here?
They continually introduce new laws to cause people to be put through the (incredibly expensive) legal system but are apparently not committed to incarcerating them at the end of the process.
Quite frankly, they may as well just scarp all the legislation and give every tax payer a refund to enable them to turn their homes, offices and cars into impregnable fortresses.
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