The government has announced plans to allow prisoners to shave two months off their jail time in a bid to tackle prison overcrowding.
Justice secretary Alex Chalk announced an extension to the end of custody supervised licence (ECSL) scheme, taking it from 18 days to a maximum of 60 days in a bid to ease the pressures facing prisons.
The government said the measure would be temporary and only apply to so-called "low-level offenders". The move has been criticised by the Labour Party as the "most drastic form of early release" ever witnessed in England and Wales. READ MORE: George Galloway slams Labour and Tories in first speech as Rochdale MP The announcement was made in a written ministerial statement to Parliament after 8pm on Monday night, which Labour said was "plainly inadequate given the gravity of the situation".
Mr Chalk then attended the Commons in person on Tuesday to update MPs on the plans. He had announced back in October that the government would use the powers it has to allow the prison service to let some prisoners out of jail up to 18 days early to ease overcrowding.
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