Revealed: Women eligible for release from prison early under emergency scheme, leaked document shows
by Andy Gregory
Mar 15, 2024
4 minutes
The government is quietly allowing women to be freed from prison early, The Independent can reveal, in an extension of the emergency scheme dramatically expanded this week amid a dire shortage of cells.
Justice secretary Alex Chalk announced in October that prisoners would be released up to 18 days early to ease the overcrowding crisis, but this was thought to apply only to men’s prisons. He extended this to between 35 and 60 days on Monday, as prisons came dangerously close to running out of space.
An internal document obtained by this publication now suggests women are also being released early under the End of
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