There are nearly 10,000 in prisons in England & Wales for drugs-related offences. It is utter madness that there was a plan to release murderers and sex offenders while a single person incarcerated of drugs offences remained in prison. Quite right to pause and rethink www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...
Burnham pauses plan to release some prisoners early from September - live updatesUnder the scheme - designed to ease overcrowding - thousands of prisoners in England and Wales could have been freed after serving a third of their sentence, rather than half.www.bbc.co.uk