PRT comment: Announcement on review of Sentencing Act release points

Commenting on the government’s announcement that it will exclude people convicted of rape and serious child sex offenders from the release provisions in the Sentencing Act 2026, Pia Sinha, chief executive of the Prison Reform Trust, said: “The government was right to listen to the concerns of victims, but it is between a rock and a hard place. The more exclusions it adds the fewer prison places it…