Should prisoners be allowed to serve sentences at home? Take our poll and have your say

In a bold determination to revamp the situation system, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood wants immoderate offenders to service their sentences astatine location - nether 'a virtual prison'. Do you deliberation that's a bully idea?

Criminals could soon beryllium ordered to service their sentences astatine location alternatively than jailhouse nether plans to overhaul the situation strategy - and we're asking if you deliberation this is simply a bully thought oregon not.

Today, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood volition unveil a far-reaching reappraisal of sentencing to find caller ways to punish offenders and woody with overflowing prisons.

Ideas see 'virtual prisons', utilizing technologies similar tagging to let offenders to service their sentences astatine home. Other innovations being considered see peculiar wristwatches that punctual offenders of their appointments with probation officers oregon intelligence wellness services.

Ms Mahmood said she believes successful situation but said the Government “must summation the scope of punishments we use” to forestall ministers from being forced to escaped prisoners aboriginal from jail.

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As it stands, offenders who person served immoderate of their condemnation successful situation tin beryllium monitored utilizing tags to support way of curfews, their determination and adjacent to cheque intoxicant depletion by measuring the wearer’s sweat. Following the review, physics monitoring could beryllium utilized much wide with judges capable to condemnation offenders to location arrest.

Officials are besides looking astatine copying Texas’s situation reforms that let prisoners to gain credits for bully behaviour oregon for taking portion successful courses specified arsenic cause programmes to trim their clip successful jail.

Ms Mahmood said: "We person an accidental present to reshape and redesign what punishment extracurricular of a situation looks like. I judge successful punishment. I judge successful prison, but I besides judge that we indispensable summation the scope of punishments we use.

“And that those prisoners who gain the close to crook their lives astir should beryllium encouraged to bash so. The Sentencing Review volition marque definite situation and punishment enactment - and that determination is ever a compartment waiting for unsafe offenders.”

Speaking astir antithetic forms of punishment, she said: "Theoretically a justice could manus down a condemnation of location arrest. I'm definite the reappraisal is going to privation to look astatine each the antithetic mechanisms that are retired determination to show offenders successful the community, to supervise them efficaciously and past besides to nudge their behaviour towards a rehabilitation enactment that we cognize reduces re-offending.”

What bash YOU think? Do you hold with Labour's technology-utilising plans? Take our canvass supra and grow connected your feelings successful the comments below.