The emergency plan to ease prison overcrowding will release up to 1,750 offenders, but concerns arise over the implications for rehabilitation and support for ex-offenders.
Prisons currently hold more than 88,500 individuals, leading to a crisis requiring urgent action to alleviate the situation, which had been deteriorating for months.
One key concern for the chief inspector of prisons is whether the released offenders will have accommodation, as homelessness significantly increases the risk of reoffending.
Releases will include offenders serving sentences of less than five years and will involve conditions such as curfews and probation supervision to support reintegration.
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