{"id":92827,"date":"2026-08-12T07:19:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92827"},"modified":"2026-08-12T07:19:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:19:56","slug":"early-release-scheme-risks-more-serious-crimes-probation-chief-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/12\/early-release-scheme-risks-more-serious-crimes-probation-chief-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Early release scheme risks more serious crimes, probation chief warns"},"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 loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/1680\/cpsprodpb\/18ba\/live\/872c2d60-95b3-11f1-969e-eb6036cb8925.jpg\" alt=\"A prison officer walks down the corridor of a prison with his back to the camera. \" width=\"612\" height=\"344\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The chief inspector of probation for England and Wales has told the BBC the early release of thousands of prisoners could lead to \u201ca serious sexual or violent offence or even murder\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c39e3y1y2zjo\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/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>The chief inspector of probation for England and Wales has told the BBC the early release of thousands of prisoners could lead&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Prison-release.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92827","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=92827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92828,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92827\/revisions\/92828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}