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Labour is focussing 'too much on criminals and not on victims', Malone claims
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May 15, 2025
Commentator Carole Malone has taken aim at Labour's latest efforts to reduce the prison capacity numbers, after announcing that criminals could serve just a third of their original sentence.Unveiling the latest Government policy, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood revealed that certain prisoners will be returned to jail for just 28 days when they violate their licence conditions.FULL STORY HERE.
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Now then, let's talk about, Carol, another Labour plan to go south on criminals
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Do you know what? This is just astonishing. So this week it was announced that criminals will only serve a third of their sentence
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which is pitiful enough. And then yesterday we were told that the recall system for people who spit on that
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and commit crimes as soon as they get out, the recall is only going to be 28 more days in prison
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This includes sex offenders and violence. Yes, and remember they said they were never going to let those people out
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and they did let all of those people out. So now if you break the terms of your release
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you get another 28 days, which will probably be half as well. They'll probably let you out after a few
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And this is, you know, we've got this woman, Shibana Mahmood, presiding over a total breakdown in law and order
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Where is the justice for people who have been victims of crime? There is no, you know, our whole system seems to be focused
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on the people who commit crime and their needs and their wants, but not on the victims of crime
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So now if you commit a rape, which you tend to get about three or four years for
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you're going to be out in a year. So what price is a woman? And the conviction rate is incredibly low for sexual assault, as we know
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But I have to take issue with your characterisation, Carol. This is Labour cleaning up the mess of the last 15 years
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Really? I know people are bored of hearing. Yes, because under the Tory government and the coalition..
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Do you know how many prisons the Tories built? They built 13,000 places and closed 12,500
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So that a net gain of 500 Three prisons they built Nothing With plans more for two and the Labour only have plans more for three and have not said when they going to be built There an easy solution to this prison crisis Kick out these foreign prisoners There ten and a half thousand of them to get proper return agreements
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Kick them all out. But how hard is it to make detention-like centres
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to put people in for soft crimes? Like, no, I say soft, they're not soft if it affects you
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Burberry, whatever. You know, we don't need hard-line jails for that. But there has to be a consequence
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And when there is no consequence, people are just going... It's, you know, that's why violent crime is wrong, isn't it
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The immediate problem is that our prisons are at 98% capacity. We're going to run out of prison space in November
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We nearly ran out of prison space last summer. So there is, in the short term, there is an imperative, unfortunately
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to release some prisoners or to release some prisoners early. The point is they need to be really careful about looking at not..
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They said, let's not release violent criminal sexual offenders. And they did. And they did, and they absolutely mustn't do that again
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But they need to look at people who are in there for, as you said, for softer crimes with short sentences and releasing those people instead
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It didn't help last summer when they shoved hundreds of people in prison who'd put out stupid inflammatory tweets about the Southport riots
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And a lot of those people are still... Why do they have to go to prison? A lot of those people are in jail. Why aren't they getting out early
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We should talk about the Peter Sullivan case, really. It's a good follow-on from this, isn't it, really
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This is the man who was jailed for 38 years for a crime he didn't commit. And the story this morning, which is shocking beyond words
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is that the maximum compensation this man can get is a million pounds
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It's that appalling, isn't it? For 38 years. A whole lot of his life
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