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Oct 11 • 8 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
NEW: 13 reasons why @MoJGovUK ran out of room in prisons:

* It closed 10,700 places - but opened only 11,000, since 2010

* It introduced tougher sentencing - ignoring impact on prisoner numbers

* It was slow to get prisons built - 20,000 places promised, only 5,200 delivered
* Pre-2020, @MoJGovUK limited court sitting days to save money, creating a backlog of cases which grew during Covid - it means record numbers are in prison on remand (14,600) and..

* Courts working flat out to clear backlogs - which means more offenders are being sentenced…
* @MoJGovUK repeatedly promised to do prisoner-return deals with other countries - but largely failed, with 10,100 foreign prisoners still here…

* As justice secretary @DominicRaab restricted transfers to ‘open’ prisons - exacerbating shortage of places in Category B & C jails.
* @MoJGovUK didn’t implement reforms for female offenders - 4,000 are in prison, 70% for non-violent crimes

* It hasn’t tackled legacy of IPP sentences..

* It failed to limit use of short prison terms - which have highest reoffending rates - despite @DavidGauke’s efforts …
* @MoJGovUK failed to plan for impact of a sudden police recruitment drive: 20,000 extra officers means more arrests, more prosecutions, more convictions, more prisoners

* It didn’t take advantage of fall in prison population in 2020 & 21 to refurbish cells & get more in use..
* Ministers didn’t heed warnings from @PGA_Prisons @POAUnion & @MoJGovUK forecasters about impending shortage of places, preferring to focus on pointless Parole Board reform, ratcheting up rhetoric on sentencing & @AlexChalkChelt’s desperate plan to use jails abroad …
Last year, @MoJGovUK began using police cells - Op Safeguard. Ministers said it was “temporary”- it’s still going.

Judges were told to consider not jailing offenders when appropriate.

Early release on tag & curfew (HDC) was quietly expanded.

Now this:

thetimes.co.uk/article/judges…
@MoJGovUK The official stats used in this thread are from the brilliant Bromley Briefings compiled by @PRTuk ..and credit to @legalhackette for the story in @thetimes

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Aug 24
NEW Another increase in the asylum backlog.

New @ukhomeoffice figures to the end of June 2023 show there were 134,046 cases without an initial decision…

… while the number of applicants waiting at least 6 months rose to 106,543 - more than double the number 18 months ago.
Asylum case backlog relates to 175,457 people.

Cases divide into 2 categories:

‘Legacy’ (applied before June 28 2022) and ‘Flow’ (since then).

Legacy backlog is down 14% in 3 months to 67,870.

@RishiSunak pledged to get it to zero by end of this year.

Flow up 21% to 66,176
@RishiSunak To achieve @RishiSunak’s pledge to clear the ‘legacy’ asylum backlog @ukhomeoffice will have to TREBLE the number of decisions it is taking every 3 months.

It made roughly 10,000 decisions between Jan and March and 11,000 between April and June. Image
Read 10 tweets
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Jul 3
Jaw-dropping stat from @MaxHillKC

A “busy” prosecutor in a Crown Court @CPSUK team is managing 100 to 110 cases.

“That’s an awful lot,” Hill tells @CommonsJustice. “That’s too high”.

He says the average - which was at one stage 130-140 - should be “below 100”.
Gloomy picture painted by @MaxHillKC .

74,300 people caught in a backlog of more than 60,000 Crown Court cases.

@MoJGovUK aim to get that down to 53,000 within 18 months is “achievable”, says Hill, but requires a number of “levers” to be pulled.

@CommonsJustice
@CPSUK
Adult rape cases should be prioritised by the courts, @MaxHillKC tells @CommonsJustice &
supports an approach adopted at Snaresbrook Crown Court to list those cases as soon as possible.

“Front-loading” evidence to encourage guilty pleas could also help cut backlogs, says Hill
Read 8 tweets
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May 9
NEW Extraordinary speech from ex Tory PM Sir John Major. He calls for wholesale change to sentencing & prisons - fewer short sentences, more focus on rehabilitation. He urges new justice Secretary @AlexChalkChelt to scrap proposals to give ministers powers over @Parole_Board
Giving @PRTuk lecture in Courtroom Number 1 at the Old Bailey Sir John says @Parole_Board is “not a bunch of gullible softies” - a veiled rebuke to @DominicRaab. He also calls for all indeterminate sentence prisoners to be re-sentenced
This is first time since he was PM that Sir John has waded into the prisons-sentencing quagmire. He attacks Govt efforts to build more prisons pointing out only 3,100 of 18,000 promised new places have been delivered by target date of mid-2020s.
Read 4 tweets
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May 8
Coronation policing by @metpoliceuk is not black & white.

The force will be delighted the event passed off peacefully - that was their priority - & deserve credit for that BUT….

The way they dealt with protesters appears excessive. I expect many of those arrested will face no… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Clearly @metpoliceuk face criticism for that & will probably have to apologise to some of those wrongly detained…

.. but I think they will be less concerned by that than they would have been if the procession had been disrupted.

*The force chose where it drew the line*
Much talk about Public Order Bill but I can’t see anyone arrested under that legislation, rather “conspiracy to cause public nuisance”, “breach of peace” etc.

It suggests this was more about the tough stance @metpoliceuk took to protest than the powers they used.
Read 5 tweets
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Apr 25
Is the police uplift for real?

@ukhomeoffice straining every sinew to meet Boris Johnson’s pledge to recruit an extra 20,000 officers in England/Wales by March 31st 2023.

On Wednesday, we’ll find out if they’ve hit the target.

I expect they have.

But don’t be fooled…
The police ‘uplift’ is a misnomer.

It’s the police *replacement* for officers who quit after @ukhomeoffice cut force budgets from 2010.

In March 2010 there were 143,734 officers (full time equivalent, FTE).

By Sept 2017, the number had dropped by 21,805 to 121,929.
Even though police officer numbers have risen since then, by September 2022 they were *still* 1,589 below March 2010 levels (FTE).

That means: for over 12 of the 13 years of Conservative Govts police officer numbers have been below the level they inherited in 2010….
Read 10 tweets
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Apr 21
Legacy of @DominicRaab

1 Record court backlogs made worse by a barristers’ strike he was partly responsible for through his obstinate refusal to engage. How ironic that it was settled in the short period when @BrandonLewis was in the job
2 Prisons so full that police cells are being used, judges have been instructed to take capacity pressures into account when sentencing, some inmates are being fast-tracked to open prisons (where there is more space) & early release on tag is being extended.
3 A probation system that is on its knees due to years of underfunding, too many organisational changes & lack of experienced staff. @DominicRaab’s focus on this evident only after damning reports were published this year into the cases of Damien Bendall & Jordan MacSweeney
Read 7 tweets

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