{"id":92268,"date":"2026-08-12T14:43:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/early-prisoner-release-scheme-risks-more-serious-crime-probation-chief-warns-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T14:43:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:43:43","slug":"early-prisoner-release-scheme-risks-more-serious-crime-probation-chief-warns-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/early-prisoner-release-scheme-risks-more-serious-crime-probation-chief-warns-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Early prisoner release scheme risks more serious crime, probation chief warns | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chief inspector of probation for England and Wales has told the BBC the early release of thousands of prisoners <!--more--> could lead to &#8220;a serious sexual or violent offence or even murder&#8221; because of the demands on probation staff to monitor offenders.<\/p>\n<p>The government is set to release 5,000 offenders from October as part of new laws to create more space in overcrowded prisons.<\/p>\n<p>Probation officers supervise offenders after prison sentences and check they follow the terms of their release, such as sticking to curfews and not taking drugs.<\/p>\n<p>A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said &#8220;protecting the public is our top priority&#8221;, adding it had invested in probation and hiring trainee officers.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#Prisons #Probation#England #Wales #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chief inspector of probation for England and Wales has told the BBC the early release of thousands of prisoners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}