“The High Court has ordered the release of a man jailed in the run-up to the Olympics, because of terrorism-related convictions dating from the 1970s.”
BBC News, 28th September 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Around one in five rioters jailed after last year’s summer rampages have been tagged and let out of prison early.”
The Guardian, 18th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“There could no longer be any objective justification for the different tests governing early release applied by the Parole Board to those serving indeterminate sentences and those serving determinate sentences under the Criminal Justice Act 1991.”
WLR Daily, 27th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A children’s charity has expressed anger after a female paedophile was released from prison nine months after her conviction.”
BBC News, 11th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Former environment minister Elliot Morley has been freed from prison after serving a quarter of his 16-month sentence for fiddling his parliamentary expenses, sources said.”
The Independent, 20th September 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A teenage girl caught with £800 of crack cocaine and heroin in her bra has been freed from prison 15 months early so she can go to university in time for freshers’ week.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Former Labour MP Jim Devine has been released from prison after serving a quarter of his 16-month sentence for expenses fraud.”
BBC News, 1st August 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who was jailed for possessing child abuse images has been freed by a judge who said he was at risk of becoming ‘another inmate’s bitch’.”
BBC News, 27th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Hundreds of dangerous offenders, including those assessed as likely killers, are being released into society under a scheme condemned by the probation service as ‘scandalous’.”
The Guardian, 8th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A prisoner who suffers social phobia has lost his legal fight to complete his jail term under curfew at home.”
BBC News, 28th February 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Last August, two of the UK’s most notorious prisoners were released from prison.”
BBC News, 6th August 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“One of the killers of Damilola Taylor will be released early from prison, despite showing no remorse at his trial and probation reports stating he posed ‘a high risk’ of attacking more people.”
The Guardian, 4th August 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Unprecedented access opens door to the often publicly criticised, but little understood, workings of the Parole Board.”
The Guardian, 19th July 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The prison population has hit a record 85,000 after Labour’s decision to end the 18-day early release scheme just before the election campaign got under way.”
The Guardian, 23rd April 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Why are we asking this now?
The serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, who was given 20 life sentences in 1981 for murdering 13 women – he was known as the Yorkshire Ripper because he mutilated his victims’ bodies with a sharpened screwdriver – has applied to the High Court for a ruling on how much longer he must serve in jail.”
The Independent, 3rd March 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Prisoners who will miss out on early release because a Government scheme was brought to an end are being advised to apply for another scheme to avoid “disappointment”, it was revealed today.”
The Independent, 1st March 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The prison service’s early release scheme under which more than 80,000 prisoners have walked out of jail 18 days early is to end by 10 April, when the general election campaign is widely expected to be getting under way.”
The Guardian, 22nd February 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A judge allowed a man convicted of assault to walk free from court as he questioned whether offenders sentenced to six months or less serve more than a few days in prison.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th October 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The prison population has hit a record high despite more than 65,000 criminals being released early to ease overcrowding in the last two years.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th August 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“This morning, once the paperwork is complete, three prison staff who have been mounting a round-the-clock bedwatch on a sick man close to his 80th birthday will slip away, leaving one of Britain’s most notorious villains free.”
The Guardian, 7th August 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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