Man freed early from UK prison allegedly assaulted woman on same day

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/14/man-freed-early-uk-prison-allegedly-assaulted-woman-same-day-release

by Ivashkin

17 comments

  1. Legalisation of cannabis is such a no brainer for the prison population crisis but instead lets release abusers and gang members

  2. Bound to happen somewhere in the country. Not surprising at all.

  3. The early bird gets the worm. We should feed reoffenders worms.

  4. While I do believe early parole can be beneficial in helping prison populations, I think we’ll end up needing to address prisoner rehabilitation. The UK reoffending rate has fluctuated between roughly 25-30% for quite a while now, which while it’s not high (the lowest reoffending rate in the world is around 20% in Norway), it could still use some work.

    Unfortunately, this was bound to happen when so many prisoners got granted early release on Tuesday. If you play Russian Roulette with 1750 six shooters, odds are you won’t have to wait very long for one of them to fire

  5. Starmer really has no idea what he is doing does he

  6. anyone charged with anything related to drug offenses in relation to consenting adults should be free

    execute sexual criminals, violent people and murdererers and there will be more space

  7. I think most of us knew releasing criminals early was a baaad idea.

    Better off building more infrastructure but nope.

  8. These fearmongering headlines aren’t going to convince me sorting out overcrowding wasn’t an obvious problem that the Tories just ignored and left for Labour to deal with

  9. I just love how high the standard of going into prison and almost non-existence of the police in the cities and somehow the prison is full.

  10. Who would’ve thought that after releasing criminals, they would keep committing crimes. Such a wild and unexpexted turn of events. What a joke.

  11. He took the government up on their offer of 40% off his next assault.

  12. What if we instead freed rapist and murderers from the material plane? Wouldn’t we have more space for people who have committed lesser offenses?

  14. Going by the group-thought on this sub, it’s understandable to think that women actually have it golden when it comes to violence/domestic violence.

    “Nah mate, look at the numbers/data…” and links to some irrelevant bullshit.

  15. It’s like they failed to read page 1 of a textbook called ‘how to run a country’. People are really really mad about this.

  16. This doesn’t change anything. Letting criminals out early, or late, changes nothing except the next victim they’ll target, and the speed in which they’ll target them.

    Adult offenders have a proven reoffending rate of between 25-30%. That is, at least 1 in 4 offenders go on to reoffend and get caught doing it. This doesn’t include those who don’t get caught.

    It’s also estimated that between 60-80% of all UK crime is committed by reoffenders.

    So focusing on their time of release and time spent in “rehabilitation” is taking away very important discourse around the pure dogshit quality of rehabilitation they receive, as this has been an issue for a very long time. As a bonus, the above figures would be even higher were it not for the amount of offenders that die annually due to the lifestyles they live.

    Tl;dr: Releasing criminals early isn’t the problem. That’s on our piss poor prison and rehabilitation system, national poverty, unfettered capitalism, lack of adequate drugs and alcohol rehabilitation, crippled health, police and justice services, and a select group of people’s inability to not wake up and be cunts for just one day.

    Source: I’m a very overworked detective.

  17. How do they choose who is released early, a parole board or something? Prisoners should definitely be assessed properly but clearly in this case he wasn’t.

    Perhaps prison guards could work with the parole boards as they have more insight into how the prisoners behave day to day.

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