Why are criminals being released early? The prison crisis in numbers

Around 1,000 rapists and child sex offenders will remain exempt from Labour’s early prison release scheme - but why couldn’t Andy Burnham go further? Alex Ross explores the crisis facing prisons

MINISTERS are looking to send more foreign lags back to their home nations to serve sentences to ease the prisons crisis. It comes after a backlash on the early prisoner release scheme — which has led to Andy Burnham pausing it. The Prime Minister is expected to tweak it so rapists do not get released...