There’s concern about the number of prisoners released early from prison on license who go on to kill or commit serious crime while still under ‘supervision’ :
Criminals on probation committed more than 1,000 serious crimes over the last two years, including nearly one murder a week in England and Wales.
The government figures give details of the 1,167 offences committed by people being supervised by probation officers.
The total included 94 murders, 105 rapes and 43 arson attacks.
Only a BBC producer could decide that the best person to interview on the topic is someone who believes the problem to be, not that criminals are being released early from prison, but that they were sent there in the first place.
As I’ve pointed out before, Frances Crook of the Howard League For The Abolition of Punishment must be able to find her way to the Today studios blindfold by now.