Proceeding contribution from Jack Straw (Labour) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 24 July 2007. It occurred during Opposition day on Penal System.
Penal System
The hon. Gentleman must know, first, that if the prisons are open prisons, which I assume he supports, there will be some absconds. If his policy is for no open prisons, let him say so. The number of absconds from open prisons has dropped dramatically from more than 1,000 in 1996-97, when there was a Government whom he supported, to nearly half that number, 556, in the last year for which we have figures. Secondly, if his concern is about absconds from an open prison, why on earth is he opposing proposals—[Interruption.] He says build a fence, but his proposals are to do exactly that.
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- 2006-07
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- Prisons Prisoners' release Overcrowding Prisoner escapes National Offender Management Service Reform
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