These shocking things happened as the prison crisis led to ‘meltdown’ | Politics | News

Tories insisted that they listened to the demands of seeing criminals who were punished with appropriate sentences after hitting a bomb report to take over prisons. A frightening examination of the extreme crowd crisis concluded that the entire system came in “within the days after melting”. And a report – by Dame Anne Oweers, the inspector of the old prisons – found that “the default position is as little as possible as possible”.

While the convicts moved 180 miles along the height of the crisis, some were asked if they were willing to share the wings with sex criminals or whether they wanted to move to the separation centers designed for excessive supporters who could radicalize others.

MS OWERS added that the crisis is “a significant sign of a systemic and long -standing problem: the difficulty of building more prisons and the business, the expense and general activity of the general activity, and the apparently irresistible pressure against the immovable object of the immovable object”.

However, a conservative party spokesman said: “The conservatives rightly listened to the request to see the criminals punished with appropriate sentences and to address the capacity problems we plan to use abroad.

“The worker has scrapped these plans and instead chose to release violent criminals on our streets.

“The worker is not serious about overcoming these problems. They prevented our deportation invoice that would require the deportation of all foreign criminals.

“While labor and reform require shorter sentences, conservatives will not apologize to ensure that disgusting criminals are kept behind our streets and bars.”

Dame Anne, a former prison observer, said that the ministers and the chiefs of justice were “minimum” for the last moment to avoid melting ”.

This led to the trigger of emergency measures held in police cells, which were released early.

He said: “This was more, more durable, not for the desire to put forward solutions.

“Since the authorities and then MOJ ministers have been pressing for a formal and planned way to reduce demand by reducing custody time for standard determinant sentences, since all supply options were exhausted.

“The discussions in Moj focused on which part of the custody period should be cut and which exemptions should be.

“The systems established were not actually governance systems: these were equivalent to hurricane warning systems designed to monitor and drive storms instead of building and planning safe systems that could prevent or withdraw them.

“Almost all of what was spoken during this examination regretted whether the system would collapse within two or three weeks, and then tried to set up for a few weeks instead of focusing on conducting an effective prison system.”

Dame Anne concluded that Labour’s decision to publish more than 16,000 criminals early could not prevent any other crisis.

He said: “In the late 2024 of the SDS40, when the house was combined with the expanded use of the curfew, it provided a respiratory space, but it is not a solution.

“In the spring of 2025, the number of prisons once again opposed capacity, police cells were reused and the forums established to manage the capacity revived.”

Emergency measures to lock dangerous criminals in the police cells amount to taxpayers on average of £ 150.

At the summit of the crisis, there were less than 100 cells, and the chiefs of justice were afraid of collapse in the law and order that the police could not arrest criminals.

It was so acute that it was the “marker of success ‘whether everyone had a bed last night’.

Some criminals moved 180 miles from Durham to Peterborough.

Dame Anne said: “The capacity crisis led to sudden and sometimes unpleasant movements between prisons to create space in reception prisons, not only early versions, but also to unpleasant movements. These movements can initiate a chain reaction: for example, when the examination, Durham prison were under certain pressure, prisoners should send prisoners to some prisoners.

“At the summit of the crisis, Durham sent men directly to Peterborough prison, 180 miles away, as he was the only alien reception prison. Even in February 2025, prisoners were still moving from north -east to northeast during the weekend.”

“Likewise, there was a chain reaction in prisons to meet capacity prints.

“In a prison, the prisoners were asked to be transferred to the vulnerable prisoner wing (men who mostly convicted men of sexual crimes) or whether they were transferred to the distinction unit to create more space.”

And Dame Anne explained how Downing Street prevented the emergency action to alleviate the crisis.

He said: “The former ministers expressed me the frustration of weak communication with the center of the government, lack of reliable plans and excessive reluctance in action.

“For example, since the mid-2023, Lord Chancellor, ultimately explained that he had defended a version of the Early release scheme before the crisis, rather than the minimal salami-ishing approach.

“Without exception, he spoke with anger and sometimes anger in the study, well -documented and close crisis, and then accepting a consistent plan to move or prevent it.

“Despite the layers of assurance, the arguments and evidence had to be repeated and reshaped, and the proven options that have already been discussed and not delivered for a long time should be resurrected and reorganized.

“Many believed that the default position would do as little as possible as possible, as a result that the system reached the threshold of the collapse over and over again, rather than accepting the inevitable and preventing the crisis.

“Since the decisions were made at the last moment, they had to be implemented at a maximum crisis point in the entire prison service.”