THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - UK PM Burnham Plans to Put Male Criminals in Women’s Prisons to Ease Overcrowding.
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has proposed putting male inmates in female prisons to ease Britain's prison overcrowding crisis.
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has outlined a new plan to address critical overcrowding in prisons , which includes placing male criminals in women’s prisons. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: British Prime Minister Andy Burnham proposed putting male inmates in female prisons on Tuesday, to ease Britain’s prison overcrowding crisis. KEY QUOTE: “It will be based on a range of options including the three strands of further work I asked him to initiate last week: increasing the rate of removal of foreign national offenders from the prison estate to their country of origin; finding an early resolution to the long-running injustice of IPP [Imprisonment for Public Protection] sentences, which could allow for the release of lower-risk…Open