Written evidence to be reported to the House

Part of Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 5:00 pm on 16 October 2007.

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Photo of Edward Garnier Edward Garnier Shadow Minister (Justice) 5:00, 16 October 2007

You mentioned your concerns about the criminal justice policy and the implementation of some of the provisions in the Bill being driven by the need to deal with the prison population. One of the other things that the probation boards and probation services have to supervise, in addition to those who are released early on licence, are those who are released from custody on licence under the ECL system. At the moment they are released 18 days early, if they belong to a certain category of prison, and most of these people are relatively short-term prisoners. Could you explain what the probation service does in the last 18 days of a custodial sentence to help resettle the prisoners in the outside world?