00:00Around 650 more prisoners are due to leave jails early under a government scheme designed to ease
00:07overcrowding. Eligible offenders will be released after serving a third of their sentence in prison
00:13rather than half. Ministers say the scheme excludes rapists, the most serious child sex
00:19offenders and prisoners convicted of manslaughter. But victims' organisations warn that releasing
00:25domestic abuse perpetrators could put survivors at risk. The probation service also faces concerns
00:32about workloads and delays in fitting electronic tags. Inspectors found almost half of tags used
00:38to monitor offenders were not fitted on time, with some delays lasting up to five months.
