Thursday, October 13, 2005

Calls for early prisoner release BBC, 13 Oct 2005

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4336928.stm
"Prison governors are calling for inmates to be released early with electronic tags to ease severe jail overcrowding in England and Wales. The call came as it emerged prisoners are being held in police cells because of a lack of jail space after inmate numbers reached a record 77,600. Prison Governors Association insisted tagging of released offenders worked. "