More than 16,000 offenders have been released early from prison in a year – of whom half had convictions for violence or ...

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Some 13,325 prisoners were released early between October 17 2023 and September 9 2024, according to data published by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ ... by the new Labour Government which has ...

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New figures show that prisons on Merseyside freed the most inmates under an early release scheme introduced by the ...

Just over a quarter (26%) of those released under the ECSL scheme had been found guilty of an offence classed as violence against the person, a similar proportion (26%) had been convicted of a theft ...