Home Office minister Paul Boateng said that, under the plan, all offenders would be subjected to intensive supervision following release from jail. The evidence shows prisoners are less likely to reoffend if you do make sure that they are supervised when they leave prison. All prison sentences ought to carry with them an element of supervision and control when they come to an end. It is a hard policy but it is evidence-based, designed to bring greater coherence to the criminal justice system. Shadow home secretary Ann Widdecombe claimed that Government plans would lead to an extra 32,000 prisoners being released early each year.
Labour are soft on crime and they know it.
They know that their ideas are seen as gimmicky and designed to be nothing more than headline-grabbing publicity stunts.