To prepare for this, it announced plans in 2021 to expand the prison estate by 20,000 places by the middle of the decade. So it is all the more damning that the government is having to resort to emergency measures now. 4 Alex Chalk – 2023 Speech to Conservative Party Conference – UKPOL.CO.UKNone of this makes for consistent or coherent policy making on prisons. The prison service should be a tool for protecting the public and rehabilitating offenders. Without a credible plan for prisons, and an approach to that acknowledges the links between different actors in the criminal justice sector, the risk is that emergency measures will become the norm.

Source: The Times October 13, 2023 23:02 UTC