Our democracy is underpinned by law and order and in order for the country to function coherently, there needs to be sufficient infrastructure that keeps the people of Britain safe from criminals.
Anything less than that is a political failure of great magnitude. And this Government has failed when it comes to ensuring there is enough capacity to lock away criminals. This Government has talked and continues to talk tough when it comes to crime but it has not walked the walk.
Rather than denying this, Government Minister Steve Barclay simply acknowledged there is “huge pressure” on the prison system. The Government cannot claim to have not seen this coming. The warning signs have been there for some time. Dr Alan Billings wrote a few months ago about how politicians needed to address the rising prison population. The UK’s prison population has increased since the Covid pandemic. There are now 88,016 prisoners.
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