Neil Shastri-Hurst: We cannot keep releasing our way out of the prisons crisis

Neil Shastri-Hurst: We cannot keep releasing our way out of the prisons crisis

Dr Neil Shastri-Hurst is the Conservative MP for Solihull West & Shirley. He is a member of the House of Commons Justice Select Committee. When a judge sends an offender to prison, victims are entitled to believe that that sentence will be served in the way Parliament intended. Yet, we are now in a situation where thousands of prisoners are leaving custody early because the state has run out of prison places. Although the decision to exempt thos…