- Thu Jul 23, 2026 7:50 pm
#114758
Andy's paused the prison early release scheme. This is what you might expect a new PM to do, no nonsense, that sort of thing. Which is another reason we didn't need to change the Prime Minister now.
Prison occupancy rate in 99%, with 90% reckoned to be about what it should be. So I don't know what he'll do. Have a few particularly unsympathetic prisoners kept in, and let the others out? The danger with that is the public thinks the PM personally directs releases from prison. If someone on early release, either under this scheme or not, commits a very serious offence, then the public may be more likely to blame the PM.