Some of those freed committed new crimes just hours after being released, the Daily Mail has reported.
The UK released over 26,000 prisoners, some serving lengthy terms, as part of a soft-justice program aimed at easing the overcrowding in jails, the Daily Mail has reported, citing government data.
Among those released between September 2024 and March 2025 were 248 convicts sentenced to 14 years or more for committing serious crimes, the paper said in an article on Sunday.
The majority of the criminals freed by the cabinet of Prime Minister Keir Starmer were British citizens, but there were also over 2,600 foreign nationals, the figures show.
An average of 3,461 prisoners have been released each month under the scheme, which allows some inmates to leave after serving 40% of their sentences. Based on this rate, the Daily Mail estimates that the total number of those freed could reach 45,000 by the end of the program’s first year.
According to the paper, the prisoners thanked Starmer after being let out and vowed to be “lifelong Labour voters.” However, some of them committed new crimes just hours after being released, according to the report.
When asked about the program, a Justice Ministry spokesman said the Labor cabinet “had no choice but to take decisive action to stop prisons overflowing and leave police unable to make arrests” after the previous Conservative government left the UK’s penitentiaries in a dire straits.
“We are building 14,000 prison places and reforming sentencing so jails never run out of space again,” he said.
Tory justice spokesman Robert Jenrick said that the number of the freed criminals was “shocking,” adding that it explained “why Britain feels lawless.” The British public is “sick of soft justice,” Jenrick told the Daily Mail.
The leader of Reform UK, Nigel Farage, claimed last month that the crime rate in the UK had spiked 50% since the 1990s and that the country is “facing societal collapse” as a result.
According to Interior Ministry data, knife crime in England and Wales rose 87% over the past decade, with almost 55,000 incidents in 2024 alone. In July, a study suggested that 39% of all mobile phone thefts across Europe now occur in the UK.
Release the radicalized Islamic and north african inmates to combat increasing public gatherings opposing ‘government unchallenged migrant infiltration’ and ‘anti Starmer policies’.
Will the clashes be used to crack down on free speech and will the 26,000 prison places be filled with mums and dads jailed for hate speech (anti govt. speech)?
Lack of prison space due to locking up non violent truth tellers. Solution, release violent criminals. Perfidious Albion.
Theres a few things going on here.
Normality isn’t letting in hundreds of thousands of fighting aged men into the UK
Normality isn’t arresting and prosecuting citizens for thought crimes and truthful words online.
Normality isn’t releasing violent thugs into the community.
Normality isn’t ignoring the peoples desperate plee for proper border security.
Normality isn’t drag queens educating 5 to 10 year olds in their classrooms.
The people of the UK and the world are awake to the complete nonsense and destruction of proper police and justice. They and we here in New Zealand and the rest of the world know exactly what is happening. Forcing people into deadly conflict and destruction. Breaking down the social fabric of the nation.
New Zealand government needs to wake up to the fact, once these thugs are holders of British passports, they can infiltrate the western world. Including here in NZ.
They don’t want to come here, its too small and boring. They like bright lights and the big city. As for the sad excuse for a govt here, they are no better than the UK globalists.
Making room for all those thought criminals…….