Labour’s ‘shameful’ prison early release scheme will leave victims ‘living in fear’ when it begins releasing thousands of inmates on Thursday, the domestic abuse commissioner has warned.
Dame Nicole Jacobs said abuse survivors were ‘uprooting their lives’ because ‘they simply do not trust that sufficient safeguards are in place’.
About 700 criminals serving sentences of up to 19 months will be released across England and Wales from Thursday morning.
It is the first stage of a new scheme set to free more than 4,500 in total by June.
Labour’s soft justice bonanza comes after its previous early release scheme, launched two years ago, led
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