00:00We've had to pull this emergency release mechanism because the crisis that I faced when I walked
00:05into the Ministry of Justice at the beginning of July of this year was acute and we were
00:09on the brink of disaster. All of those who are released under this scheme and actually
00:15prisoners who are released in the normal way under licence usually face strict licence
00:19conditions. If they break those conditions they are recalled to prison. I expect the
00:24rate of recall to prison for breaking licensing conditions to track the same as it would for
00:29other types of releases. So we haven't seen an increase in recalls for this cohort of
00:33offenders but recalls do happen in the normal way. It normally tracks between 6 and 10%
00:39of those who are released on licence end up breaking their licence conditions and end
00:43up back in prison. It varies the length of time that they do go back in prison for but
00:48that is the point of being on licence. It is there to say you have to behave yourself,
00:52you have to abide by these conditions. If you break them you do go back to prison.
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