Some prisoner releases to go ahead despite Burnham’s pause
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Around a thousand prisoners in England and Wales won't be eligible for early release after Prime Minister Andy Burnham said he was tightening the rules and suspending the provisions until October. [Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https://channel4news.substack.com/subscribe] While this is relief for some victims of rape and grooming gangs, dread remains for many others. The Starmer government had planned for thousands of prisoners to be released early to free up some urgently needed cells. Such was the alarm at this prospect in Burnham's first week on the job, that some exemptions have been made. Rapists or grooming gang members will have to stay behind bars. But thousands of other perpetrators of domestic abuse and other crimes, many of them against women, will not. Their victims are terrified and more than ever the government will have to rely on the probation service to reassure them. But how can they when almost one in four frontline vacancies aren't filled and thousands
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