Robert Jenrick says the justice secretary is "failing to protect the public" with the government's new early release scheme. The shadow justice secretary adds, "she chose to reduce the sentences of criminals who have reoffended or breached their licenses. They're putting the public at risk". Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00The Justice Secretary is failing to protect the public.
00:02To govern is to choose.
00:04And today she's chosen to release early criminals
00:07who've re-offended or breached their licenses.
00:11There are other choices she could have made.
00:13She could have brought forward emergency measures
00:15to tackle the 10,000 foreign criminals who are in our prisons,
00:19and we would have supported her.
00:21She could have brought forward emergency measures
00:22to get our courts sitting seven days a week
00:25and tackle the 17,000 people who are in our prisons
00:29awaiting a trial, and we would have supported her.
00:32Frankly, we would support her tomorrow if she did that.
00:35But instead, she chose to reduce the sentences of criminals
00:40who have re-offended or breached their licenses.
00:43That's putting the public at risk.
00:45We know already the consequences because we've been here before.
00:49The last time she released prisoners early,
00:51someone was killed the very same day.