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The new government in the UK is to with a serious crisis in its prison system. The new Labour administration made the decision on Friday to thousands of prisoners before the convicts had serving their sentence. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer the mess in Britain's prisons service to a decade of neglect and underinvestment under the previous Conservative Party, which had in power for 14 years. The prisoner population is nearly at capacity. Inmates are having to be early to newly-sentenced felons. Some will be released having just 40 per cent of their time. Mr Starmer said the problem "pretty unforgivable, in my book".

The UK's justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood, of a "total breakdown in law and order" if prisons capacity. Ms Mahmood said: "Prisons are on the point of collapse". If space ran out, there would nowhere to put those arrested or newly sentenced. The justice system would be . Mahmood said there would be "looters running amok, windows, robbing shops and neighbourhoods alight". There currently only 1,451 places available. She former leader Rishi Sunak and prisons ministers for a "dereliction of duty" and for the system. She called them: "The guilty men who their political careers ahead of the safety and security of our country."