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The United Kingdom on Sunday said criminals would be barred from pubs, concerts, and sports matches under new sentencing powers as part of its Plan for Change.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

It said that judges would be able to curtail offenders\u2019 freedoms with driving\u00a0limits,\u00a0travel bans, and restriction zones confining them into specific areas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The changes are expected to toughen up community punishments to deter reoffending and force offenders back on the straight and narrow.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

It said that as part of the government\u2019s work to do everything in its power to keep Britain safe, offenders coming out of prison and supervised by the Probation Service would also face similar restrictions and an expanded mandatory drug testing regime.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn the future, criminals without known drug habits will face this scrutiny, not just those with a history of substance misuse. Offenders who break the rules face being brought back to court or hauled back to prison as punishment, depending on the sentence they are serving,\u201d the government stated on its website on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, said widening the range of punishments available to judges was part of the government\u2019s Plan for Change to cut crime and make streets safer.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen criminals break society\u2019s rules, they must be punished. Those serving their sentences in the community must have their freedom restricted there, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese new punishments should remind all offenders that, under this Government, crime does not pay. Rightly, the public expects the government to do everything in its power to keep Britain safe, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re doing,\u201d Mahmood was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n

According to the government, judges\u00a0are currently able to\u00a0give out limited bans for specific crimes, for example, football bans for crimes committed inside a stadium on match day, to prevent further antisocial behaviour.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It, however, said it would change the law shortly so that such bans can be handed down as a form of punishment for any offence in any circumstance.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will form part of wider reforms to sentencing to ensure punishments cut crime and prisons never again run out of places for dangerous offenders.\u00a0Over 2,400 prison places have opened since July 2024, with the government investing \u00a37 billion to create a total of 14,000 as the prison population increases.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cInvestment in the Probation Service will also receive a huge boost with an increase of up to \u00a3700 million by 2028\/29, up from the annual budget of around \u00a31.6 billion today. This week, it was revealed that the number of Probation Officers has increased by seven per cent in the last 12 months, with trainee probation officer numbers also seeing a surge of 15 per cent.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis follows the government\u2019s commitment to recruit a further 1,300 this year, in addition to the 1,000 trainee probation officers recruited last year. New technology, including artificial intelligence, will lighten the administrative burden and free up time for probation staff to increase supervision of the most dangerous offenders and keep the public safe,\u201d the government disclosed on its website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 The United Kingdom on Sunday said criminals would be barred from pubs, concerts, and sports matches under…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[14223,748,393,94,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-370338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-ban","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-northern-ireland","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115085106473242805","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}