This is The Guardian.
Today, our prisons are full, but who should we release early to make space?
Counts, just two weeks ago, there were almost 86,500 people in prison in England and Wales.
That is about 5,000 more than even the Ministry of Justice accepts can be held safely on the prison estate.
It's not exactly a new story.
Prisons have been full for years now.
They were full when David Cameron was Prime Minister.
The truth is that simply warehousing ever more prisoners is not financially sustainable.
They were full under Boris Johnson.
So we're going to have another 10,000 places.
Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak.
It does not apply to anyone serving a life sentence.
Anyone convicted of a serious...
And when Keir Starmer became Prime Minister, he inherited a system about to collapse.
Unless he carried on with Tory plans to release a bunch of prisoners early.
We're releasing prisoners who should be in prison early and giving
instructions to the police not to arrest in certain cases.
That is how broken the system is.
But that was only a temporary fix.
And before he stepped down,