Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 20393

Prisoners' Release: Electronic Tagging

Tabled: 16 December 2024

Answered: 23 December 2024

Question

Dr Kieran Mullan

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2024 to Question HL2063 on Prisoners' Release: Electronic Tagging, for what reason all SDS40 releases were not tagged before leaving prison.

Answer

Sir Nicholas Dakin

This Government inherited a criminal justice system on the brink of collapse, and as a result was forced to introduce the emergency SDS40 scheme which allows some individuals to be released 40% of the way through their custodial sentence rather than at 50...

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