Prisoners' Release
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of the prisoners released at the 40 percent of sentence point under her SDS40 early release scheme, have subsequently been accused of committing a further offence since 20 September 2024.
Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin
On 25 July, the Lord Chancellor announced that around 5,500 offenders will be released, in two tranches, in September and October. Further detail is set out in the Impact Assessment.
Data on further offences of SDS40 releases forms a subset of data intended for future publication.
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