Jail time for recalled offenders to be limited to free up prison places

It is shameful that for so long, the last Conservative government failed to reckon with the reality of a rising prison population,” Mahmood said. She said the new recall measures were expected to free up about 1,400 places. The three prisons will be built near existing prisons, Mahmood said, with construction workers breaking ground on a site near HMP Gartree in Leicestershire later this year. Mahmood said that despite “record prison expansion”, England and Wales would still be more than 9,000 prison places short by 2028. “On our current trajectory, the prison population rises by 3,000, and now we expect to hit zero capacity – to entirely run out of prison places for adult men – in November of this year,” she said.