The original article isbehind a paywall (higher than 12ft): https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/judges-told-not-to-jail-rapists-as-prisons-are-full-2tfgb2czs
Fucking clown show.
I realize this is a bit off topic, but do UK’s judges still use those fake wigs today? I know that they did in back when the US split off, but I just wondering if they still do or if this is just a relevant stock photo.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Judges have been told to delay the sentencing of convicted criminals currently on bail – including rapists and burglars – because prisons are full, according to a report.
Earlier this year, in a court of appeal case, Edis said that for offences which attract shorter terms, judges and magistrates should consider imposing suspended sentences given “current prison population levels”.
Last year, the government announced Operation Safeguard, the emergency use of 400 police cells to hold inmates.
To much criticism, it recently said it would seek to rent prison cells in foreign countries to alleviate the squeeze in England and Wales.
In his court of appeal judgment in March, Edis cited a letter from the then justice secretary, Dominic Raab, which said: “Detention would be harsher than before on account of high occupancy levels, reduced access to rehabilitation programmes and the possibility of prisoners being detained further away from home.”
Speaking to Times Radio, the health secretary, Steve Barclay, refused to confirm or deny that judges had been told not to send some convicted criminals to jail owing to prisons nearing capacity but acknowledged prisons were under “huge pressure”.
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Half-baked idea: Rather than not putting people in, start letting long-servers out to make room.
Lots of problems with it, sure, hence half-baked, but there must be quite a few long servers whose early release would be less harmful than letting the unimprisoned receive no punishment (or even extended inconvenience) at all.
Or are prisons already full of people who are more harm than the people we can’t fit in there any more?
I mean, if hospitals can kick people out when they need the bed…
