Public Protection

The Home Secretary’s statement is too little, too late. Since home detention curfews were introduced, 7,000 crimes have been committed by people who are out on a tag, and more than 1,500 people released on parole have committed further crimes since 1997. Does not the Home Secretary understand that those crimes would not have occurred if those people were in prison? They include a convicted murderer who was let out into my constituency and recently convicted again of abducting and raping a young boy. Surely the time has come for prisoners to serve their sentences in full.