Tories: Sentencing review ‘ideological’ and ‘not justice’

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Robert Jenrick says the independent review on sentencing carried out by former Conservative minister David Gauke is “not practical government” but “ideological”. The shadow justice secretary describes Mr Gauke as a “prisons minister who wanted to reduce the number of people” in jails. Mr Jenrick also says the proposals will put the “public at risk” and provide a “get out of jail card for criminals” by not sending some offenders to prison and releasing others early.   Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Look, this is not practical government. This is ideological. The Prime Minister hand-picked

00:07a prison's minister who wanted to reduce the number of people in our prisons by two-thirds

00:11and surprise, surprise, look where we've got to today. The government could have been bringing

00:16forward proposals to tackle the 10,800 foreign national offenders in our prisons or proposals

00:23to tackle the 17,800 individuals in our prisons on remand awaiting trial by getting the courts

00:31operating seven days a week. And we would have supported them if they had, but instead they're

00:37putting the public at risk and they're providing a get-out-of-jail-free card for criminals. These

00:43proposals are going to mean that people who would have been in prison for important serious

00:48offences like burglary and theft, thugs assaulting people, domestic abusers are now not going

00:55to go to jail at all and instead are going to merely have a tag. And people who are going

01:01to prison for offences like ABH or arson are only going to serve a third of their sentence.

01:07This is not justice. This is going to leave the public in danger and it's going to mean

01:13that criminals will be on our streets terrorising communities with impunity.

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