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The government has announced plans to allow prisoners to shave two months off their jail time in a bid to tackle prison overcrowding.
Justice secretary Alex Chalk announced an extension to the end of custody supervised licence (ECSL) scheme, taking it from 18 days to a maximum of 60 days in a bid to ease the pressures facing prisons. The government said the measure would be temporary and only apply to so-called "low-level offenders".
The move has been criticised by the Labour Party as the "most drastic form of early release" ever witnessed in England and Wales.
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The announcement was made in a written ministerial statement to Parliament after 8pm on Monday night, which Labour said was "plainly inadequate given the gravity of the situation". Mr Chalk then attended the Commons in person on Tuesday to update MPs on the plans.
He had announced back in October that the government would use the powers it has to allow the prison service to let some prisoners out of jail up to 18 days early to ease overcrowding. But with recent Ministry of Justice (MoJ) statistics showing that prisons in England and Wales are still nearing capacity, Mr Chalk opted on Monday to extend ECSL measures "to around 35-60 days".
The MoJ said that prisons would have licence to release eligible offenders up to 35 days before their prison tenure is due to end, with the provision to extend that further to 60 days if necessary in the future. He added that there would be safeguards in place, including a gold command veto that would mean if a prison governor has "concerns about safety, then that person will not be released".
Shabana Mahmood, the shadow justice secretary, said
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