Labour
Some criminals will be barred from pubs, concerts and sports matches under new sentencing powers unveiled by the Government. Driving limits, travel bans and restriction zones confining them into specific areas are part of more proposed community punishments and hence less use of the overcrowded prisons. What’s proposed is on the lines of football bans for crimes inside a stadium on match day; it’s proposed that such bans can be handed down as a form of punishment for any offence.
Justice Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, said: “Widening the range of punishments available to judges is part of our Plan for Change to cut crime and make streets safer. When criminals break society’s rules, they must be punished. Those serving their sentences in the community must have their freedom restricted there too.
“These new punishments should remind all offenders that, under this Government, crime does not pay. Rightly, the public expect the government to do everything in its power to keep Britain safe, and that’s what we’re doing.”
Labour points also to use of AI (artificial intelligence) tools, that it says will lighten the administrative burden and free up time for probation staff, as part of what Shabana Mahmood, said ‘will transform the justice system’.
Reform UK
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage yesterday unveiled ‘Operation Restoring Justice‘, described by the party as a ‘five year emergency programme’ to identify, detain and deport’ all illegal immigrants in the UK. Proposed in a four-page document is an ‘enforcement unit’, UK Deportation Command, while the Home Office will build SIRCs (Secure Immigration Removal Centres) to hold up to 24,000. They will be in ‘remote’ parts of the UK; and have ‘robust’ perimeters ‘to prevent escapes’. As for data, any ‘police encounter’ will have ‘mandatory biometric capture’; and besides the Home Office and the police, banks, the National Health Service (such as GPs), the DVLA, HM Revenue and Customs, and banks will ‘automatically share data’.
Conservatives
Transport for London (TfL) has launched a poster campaign encouraging people who play content using their device’s speakers on services to be considerate towards others and use headphones. On that note, the Conservatives‘ transport spokesman Richard Holden proposed on the spot fines for those playing loud music, stating that public transport passengers ought not to have to endure ‘somebody else’s choice of crap music …. at full blast’.
Photo: Inverness prison wall.
