{"id":2079,"date":"2011-08-22T07:50:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T06:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2021-09-10T14:30:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T14:30:53","slug":"prison-population-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=2079","title":{"rendered":"Prison population &#8211; record high"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-full wp-image-903\" style=\"width:78px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/wandsworth_prison.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/wandsworth_prison.jpg\" alt=\"Image of Wandsworth prison\" width=\"78\" height=\"116\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>Prisons are nearly full<\/div>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\nFigures released Friday showed that the English prison population had hit a record high following the jailing of hundreds of people involved in the country\u2019s recent riots.<\/p>\n<p>Statistics released by the Ministry of Justice showed that the population in England and Wales reached 86,654 \u2014 just 1,500 places below operational capacity. About 700 people were added to the prison system in the past week.<\/p>\n<p>A Manchester woman jailed for five months for accepting a pair of shorts that had been looted during the riots has been released in one of the first appeals against tough sentences being handed out by the courts, which have pushed the prison population to a record high.<\/p>\n<p>Ursula Nevin, 24, has been ordered to do 75 hours of unpaid community work after a judge reduced the jail sentence imposed last week, saying it was<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cwrong in principle\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prisons are nearly full Figures released Friday showed that the English prison population had hit a record high following the jailing of hundreds of people involved in the country\u2019s recent riots. Statistics released by the Ministry of Justice showed that the population in England and Wales reached 86,654 \u2014 just 1,500 places below operational capacity. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2086,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions\/2086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}