An emergency plan to try to ease prison overcrowding has been started by the government – as courts continue to hear cases involving those accused of rioting earlier in the month.
Across northern England and parts of the Midlands, those waiting for a court appearance will now be held in police cells until there’s a prison place for them.
“Operation Early Dawn” was started on Monday morning.
On this episode, Niall Paterson assess the potential impact on courts and the police.
He speaks to Mark Fairhurst, national chair of the Prison Officers’ Association, Philip Jones, custody lead at the National Police Federation and Sky communities correspondent, Becky Johnson.
Becky also explains the context and longer-term plan for the prison system.
Producers: Soila Apparicio, Emma Rae Woodhouse
Editor: Paul Stanworth
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12 Comments
Bix nood
legalize cannabis ffs.
Stop 2TierKeir’s 🦘courts.
I don't mind extremely quick sentencing. I mind when it never happened against "grooming" gangs. What a stupid euphemism. It's Islamic gang grape gangs.
Probably why Islamic extremiists are not being charged.
Bibby Stockholm has 500 spare beds
Who knew that rounding up and jailing your political opponents was a bad idea 🤷♂️
They don’t prosecute the VAST majority of rapists (OVER 97%) of those reported each year. They don’t investigate burglaries, car theft, mobile phone theft etc at all! So called “petty criminals” are walking around after being charged of 50, 100, even 100’s of crimes… Who are we locking-up? 😳
Stop arresting people for comments on social media then. It’s pathetic
They can cope when it suits them as we have all witnessed!😂
Whether the police and the courts can cope or not im not paying for parliament to jail parliament
Well Well Well,wtf