It is understood that the government is developing plans that could see convicted criminals that fill potholes and cleaning containers.
As SUN first reported on Sunday, it is said that the Secretary of Justice Shabana Mahmood wants to expand unpaid work, which she thinks is too indulgent.
It is understood that he wanted probation teams to work with the advice, so that local authorities can assign jobs to criminals.
Private companies could also use those who have community sentences.
The criminals would not be paid wages, but the money earned would be paid in a fund for the victims groups.
It occurs when prisons throughout the country are struggling to deal with overcrowding after the number of criminals after bars reached a new maximum.
A government source said: “With prisons so close to collapse, we will have to punish more criminals outside the prison.
“We need punishment to be more than a soft or weak option on the wrist. If we want to prove that the crime does not pay, we need criminals to work for free, with the salary they would have paid returning to their victims.”
They added this handling of the works that the public “really wants to do, not only scrubbing graffiti, but filling potholes and cleaning the containers.”
Writing for Telegraph, Mrs. Mahmood, who describes herself as a “card member” or the law and order of his parties, “said” the difficult community orders work “.
An independent review of the sentence made by former conservative secretary David Gauke is expected to be published this week.
He was commissioned last year after overcrowding led to the early release of thousands or prisoners.
It is understood that Gauke is considering the supervision of the idea of discarding short prison conditions as part of the review of the sentence, and it is likely to recommend more community -based sentences to reduce the dependence on imprisonment.
In a provisional report, Gauke warned that, unless radical changes were made, prisons in England and Wales could run out of cells at the beginning of next year.
Mrs. Mahmood warned that “I would have to begin bold measures, and some difficult.”
In his article, he pointed out examples of the system in Texas, where he said that “criminals who comply with the prison rules gain an earlier release, while they are not locked longer.”
On Wednesday, he announced that more than a thousand inmates will be released early spaces in prisons in England and Wales, and that an investment of £ 4.7 billion will be used.
The Secretary of Justice of the Shadows, Robert Jenrick, said that the announcement was “not to protect the public,” add “to the government is to choose, and today has chosen to free the first criminals who have repeat off or violated their subsidies.”
