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Action Needed to Stop Criminals Reoffending
Reporter: Ask Bury
Date online: 10 March 2008
Convicted criminals serving community sentences will be forced to wear high visibility overalls whilst those in jails will have to work to compensate their victims under new policies unveiled by the Conservatives this week.
David Nuttall the Conservatives' Parliamentary Candidate for Bury North welcomed the new proposals,
"Anyone who is sentenced to a term of imprisonment has committed a serious offence and yet Labour are giving these criminals a break by letting them out early on to the streets of Bury. The public are already concerned that not enough is being done to protect them and it sends out entirely the wrong signal when convicted criminals are released early."
The latest Government figures show that between June 2007 and January 2008 over 3,000 prisoners were let out early under the Government's Early Release Scheme with 587 of these being released from Strangeways alone.
Under the Conservative plans:
Courts will set a minimum and a maximum period in jail. Prisoners would no longer have an automatic early release. All prisoners would have to serve a guaranteed minimum sentence.
Prisoners who refuse to take part in rehabilitation programmes or stay off drugs will remain in prison the longest.
Community sentences would be made tougher with prisoners being made to wear high visibility overalls and there would ne new sanctions such as the withdrawal of benefit imposed on those who did not attend.
Prisoners will be required to work in prison to raise money to compensate victims of crime through a Victims Fund.
More resources will be provided for rehabilitation with prison Governors being responsible for offenders after they are released - not just when they are in prison.
David Nuttall added,
" I welcome these new policies which will ensure that criminals will receive a sentence that will both act as a deterrent to others and help to rehabilitate the offender. Prison overcrowding means that less attention is paid to reforming, education and rehabilitation. Under Labour's present system two out of three ex-prisoners are reconvicted within two years of release."
David Nuttall the Conservatives' Parliamentary Candidate for Bury North welcomed the new proposals,
"Anyone who is sentenced to a term of imprisonment has committed a serious offence and yet Labour are giving these criminals a break by letting them out early on to the streets of Bury. The public are already concerned that not enough is being done to protect them and it sends out entirely the wrong signal when convicted criminals are released early."
The latest Government figures show that between June 2007 and January 2008 over 3,000 prisoners were let out early under the Government's Early Release Scheme with 587 of these being released from Strangeways alone.
Under the Conservative plans:
Courts will set a minimum and a maximum period in jail. Prisoners would no longer have an automatic early release. All prisoners would have to serve a guaranteed minimum sentence.
Prisoners who refuse to take part in rehabilitation programmes or stay off drugs will remain in prison the longest.
Community sentences would be made tougher with prisoners being made to wear high visibility overalls and there would ne new sanctions such as the withdrawal of benefit imposed on those who did not attend.
Prisoners will be required to work in prison to raise money to compensate victims of crime through a Victims Fund.
More resources will be provided for rehabilitation with prison Governors being responsible for offenders after they are released - not just when they are in prison.
David Nuttall added,
" I welcome these new policies which will ensure that criminals will receive a sentence that will both act as a deterrent to others and help to rehabilitate the offender. Prison overcrowding means that less attention is paid to reforming, education and rehabilitation. Under Labour's present system two out of three ex-prisoners are reconvicted within two years of release."
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