Tre nuove prigioni da costruire, afferma il segretario alla giustizia, poiché Moj avverte le carceri degli uomini potrebbero esaurire lo spazio: la politica del Regno Unito vive
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/may/14/keir-starmer-kemi-badenoch-pmqs-immigration-energy-assisted-dying-uk-politics-news-live-updates?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-5
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Announcement:
Justice secretary Shabana Mahmood says government has agreed funding for three new prisons
At the MoJ briefing Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, spoke after the presentation from Amy Rees. (See 3.52pm.)
She started by saying she could make a political point that Rees could not.
It is shameful that this country in 2025 finds itself in this cycle of crisis. It is shameful that for so long the last Conservative governmen failed to reckon with the reality of a rising prison population.
When Labour was lost in government, we increased prison capacity by 28,000 places. In their 14 years in power, the Conservatives added just 500 additional places, leaving our prisons on the brink of collapse.
Mahmood said the government has committed to creating more prison space.
Last December we published a long-term building strategy setting out our aim to open up 14,000 prison places by 2031. This is the largest expansion of the prison estate since the Victorians.
We have already committed £2.3bn pounds to prison expansion, and since taking office, we have delivered 2,400 new places.
We will now go further. While the spending review is ongoing, I can announce today that the Treasury will fund our prison expansion plans in full across the spending review period. This is a total capital investment of £4.7bn. It allows us to start building three new prisons.
Send all foreign prisoners back to there own country that will free up thousands of spaces 🤔
They’ll end up going completely over budget and over schedule as per usual.
A quick search tells us 37,000 people entered the UK illegally in 2024 alone. Already 3x the spaces quoted here. Surely putting people to some sort of community work would be better for everyone rather than the tax-payer putting them up in a prison for no return – get them working.
We need to get off this imprison all crims and throw away the keys trip. We also need to remove the causes of crime and address social inequality, poverty and look at drug use less as a crime and where feasible as a means of raising revenue.
I haven’t checked but are sentence lengths and periods before parole are getting longer?
Prison should be the norm for serious and repeat offenders but greater use has to be made of in community sentencing, technology and a much needed beefing up of offender support and probation services.
Will this be cheap? No, but neither is building and running prisons.
What the fuck did the Tories actually do for 14 years?
Non-violent criminals like tax evaders and vandalisers shouldn’t be taking the spot of a murderer or rapist. We also shouldn’t just be handing out ‘suspended’ sentences and forgetting about the offenders, they should be facing some kind of punishment like house arrest or community service in the meantime.
Finally, I’ve been banging on about this for years. We need more prison capacity to facilitate tougher sentencing, and more rigorous and secure cell arrangements to protect workers and make it less cushty for prisoners. Fixes the recruitment crisis for prison guards, and makes committing crimes actually have a feared consequence.
As a (now former) conservative party voter, it’s apparent that they have done a truly woeful job in government over the last 14 years, completely void of strategy and leadership. It will take decades to forgive, and Reform cannot currently demonstrate that they can be trusted with the reigns of something so important.
Don’t need new prisons, just do some obvious things first, e.g. deport all foreign offenders currently in jail or arrange for them to be imprisoned in their home countries. That will clear up a good chunk of the prison population.
Consider outsourcing prisoners to 3rd countries. This would be a cheap and effective way to reduce the prison population in this country. Denmark and Sweden are both doing this, as well as the USA so there’s precedent for liberal Western nations outsourcing their incarceration industry overseas.
Got to lock up all those pesky Facebook posters for having political views that the government doesn’t like somehow.
Everyone seems to want more people in jail who otherwise might be sentenced to something else, *and* wants everybody who is in jail to serve longer sentences.
When you’re growing along multiple dimensions simultaneously like this, it’s a recipe for exponential growth in prison costs.
We could start by reinstating the death penalty for murder where there is indisputable evidence. That would start freeing up space.
How about changing the purpose of some of those ex RAF bases to house our prisoners instead of refugees.
Gotta keep all those people making mean tweets somewhere I guess