00:00We inherited, when we came to government two years ago, a situation where we had less than 100 prison places
00:04left,
00:05getting to the point where essentially justice would break down in this country.
00:08Over the last two years, we've built a new sentencing regime that takes us out of that permanent crisis,
00:13and those first releases under that start at the beginning of October.
00:19The tranches I've made publicly available last month, we're talking about around 700 in this first tranche as part of
00:25those initial releases.
00:27Those are now subject to the biggest range of controls we've ever had.
00:31We've made a really big investment in probation, 700 million over three years, but that's into staff,
00:36but also the largest expansion of tagging ever in exclusion zones, alcohol tagging, football bans,
00:43so people might be leaving prison, but they're not going on to live their free lives.
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