{"id":92417,"date":"2026-07-30T20:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92417"},"modified":"2026-07-30T20:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:00:26","slug":"more-than-70000-prisoners-freed-early-as-labour-admits-release-scheme-likely-behind-recall-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/30\/more-than-70000-prisoners-freed-early-as-labour-admits-release-scheme-likely-behind-recall-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 70,000 prisoners freed early as Labour admits release scheme &#8216;likely&#8217; behind recall surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA293cvq.img?w=768&h=437&m=6\" alt=\"prison stock | Source: PA\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More than 70,000 prisoners in England and Wales have been released from jail under the Government\u2019s early release scheme to tackle overcrowding, with more than 50,000 recalled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/other\/more-than-70-000-prisoners-freed-early-as-labour-admits-release-scheme-likely-behind-recall-surge\/ar-AA293WrN?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=5f949463655542a2ae8f9fbcbd1f94d1&ei=30\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>More than 70,000 prisoners in England and Wales have been released from jail under the Government\u2019s early release scheme to tackle overcrowding,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/prison-security.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92419,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92417\/revisions\/92419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}