Limits of how long can some criminals can return to prison, in an attempt to stop the jail in England and Wales that run out of space, said the Secretary of Justice.
Shabana Mahmood said that an investment of £ 4.7 billion would finance more prisons, but said it would not be possible to “get out of this crisis.”
A senior official of the Ministry of Justice said that the Government “will run out of prison in just five months of” time “if the action were not tasks.
According to the shake, the criminals remembered prison, for breaching their licenses will be released after a fixed period of 28 days In England and Wales.
Mahmood said the move would release around 1,400 places in prison and buy time from the ministers to review a “on the edge of the collapse.”
He warned that the deposit plans to start working in three prisons this year, it would not be possible to “build it from this crisis” and the government faced each other without spaces for male criminals in November.
She said that the last prison construction initiative would be founded by a capital investment of £ 4.7 billion.
It is likely that the changes of an upcoming review of the sentence, directed by former conservative minister David Gauke, only felt from the spring next year, he added.
The prison population is 88,087 of an usable operational capacity 89,442, according to the latest official weekly figures.
It is estimated that it will increase between 95,700 and 105,200 in March 2029, according to a governmental analysis published last year.
The changes announced on Wednesday would apply to criminals with sentences between one and four years, who have released their legs after fulfilling their minimum period, but remembered for violating their terms of their license.
Mahmood said the change would not apply to those who commit a more serious crime, or are considered to represent a high risk.
The president of the Association of Prison Officers (POA) said that building new prisons “will not improve the current population crisis.”
“The Government would be better to spend billions of taxpayers in the modernization of penitentiary heritage, finance a probation service with resources little resources, provide more safe mental health beds and ensure that we have solid community sentences saved,”
