To remove your uncertainty in your own assumptions, you are wrong, I do not believe Starmer, or indeed anyone is ‘infallible’, fallibility is, as I have argued elsewhere a very human trait, frequently demonstrated in the administration of justice.
What I challenge is the misrepresentation, or indeed omission of facts surrounding this issue of early prisoner release.
Is it being perfectly administered? obviously not, is it the grand incompetence some claim? certainly not, is it even something new? no it is not.
There are some salient facts:
Prisons were already seriously overcrowded in early 2024.
The previous Government were already releasing prisoners early to reduce over crowding.
The parole regime in place since the 90s was already releasing long sentence prisoners on parole after they had served 50% of their sentence, refer link below.
Refer my earlier post explaining the misrepresentation of facts surrounding examples others were citing.
So before the election prisons were seriously overcrowded, prisoners were already being released early while under this latest scheme, prisoners are being released after serving 40% of their time rather than the normal 50%.
There are obviously problems, but the go way beyond the release scheme.
Chronic over crowding of prisons,
A failure to build the prisons the nation needs.
Chronic shortage of housing and accommodation for prisoners released that predates this scheme.
Gaping holes in prisoner rehabilitation programs.
Under staffed and underfunded probation services.
The imprisonment of the drug addicted rather than treatment.
The correlation between homelessness and imprisonment perpetuated by releasing prisoners into the street with no accommodation.
And always, the myth of easy solutions to complex problems.
https://prisonreformtrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/old_files/Documents/Parole Information Booklet.pdf