Tens of thousands of criminals may dodge jail as ministers rip up the sentencing rules to make room in overflowing jails.
Justice Secretary Alex Chalk will today announce plans to shake up the justice system as the prison estate reached breaking point.Less than 600 free spots are available in jails in England and Wales as more people are banged up than let out.A huge backlog of cases thanks to Covid and the toughening up and lengthening of sentences in recent years has led to the prison population spiralling to 88,225 as of last week.
Mr Chalk wrote yesterday: "A short stretch of a few months inside isn’t enough time to rehabilitate criminals, but is more than enough to dislocate them from the family, work and home connections that keep them from crime. Too often, offenders routinely turn back to crime as soon as they walk out of the prison gates.
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