{"id":53333,"date":"2026-07-01T18:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/53333\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T18:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:12:10","slug":"how-many-rapists-will-walk-free-prisons-minister-grilled-over-early-release-scheme-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/53333\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW MANY RAPISTS WILL WALK FREE? Prisons minister grilled over early release scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"HOW MANY RAPISTS WILL WALK FREE? Prisons minister grilled over early release scheme\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6F358GzulnA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nHOW MANY RAPISTS WILL WALK FREE? Prisons minister grilled over early release scheme<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThousands of killers, rapists and sex offenders are among those who could be released early this September as the Government tries to tackle the crisis facing Britain\u2019s overcrowded prisons.<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>The plans have sparked a political row, with former safeguarding minister Jess Phillips calling for child rapists to be excluded from the scheme, while the Conservatives have accused the Government of putting victims at risk.<\/p>\n<p>On this episode of The Fourcast, Jackie Long speaks to Amy Clowrey, a solicitor who specialises in child sex abuse cases, Mark Fairhurst, chair of the Prison Officers Association, and prisons minister Lord Timpson.<\/p>\n<p>What does the scheme mean for victims? How many offenders could be released? And is there another way to fix Britain\u2019s prison crisis?<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOW MANY RAPISTS WILL WALK FREE? Prisons minister grilled over early release scheme Thousands of killers, rapists and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[11],"tags":[331,366,352,365,2364,48224,1789,48250,48248,354,33231,263,18554,1295,353,39226,326,48226,48221,33368,48249,325,15632,4656,3983,5641,341,267,48222,235],"class_list":["post-53333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-channel-4-news","tag-british-politics","tag-channel-4","tag-channel-4-news","tag-channel4","tag-conservatives","tag-convicted-criminals","tag-crime-news","tag-crime-policy","tag-early-release-prisoners","tag-international-news","tag-justice-system","tag-keir-starmer","tag-labour-government","tag-labour-party","tag-latest-news","tag-ministry-of-justice","tag-nigel-farage","tag-prison-reform","tag-prison-release-scheme","tag-prison-sentences","tag-probation-service","tag-reform-uk","tag-safeguarding","tag-sex-offenders","tag-sexual-offences","tag-the-fourcast","tag-uk-news","tag-uk-politics","tag-uk-prisons-crisis","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}