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词条 Operation Safeguard
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  1. Alternatives to Operation Safeguard

  2. See also

  3. References

  4. External links

Operation Safeguard is a contingency plan to deal with prison overcrowding in the United Kingdom; it involves using cells at police stations as accommodation for prisoners when the number of cells in prisons becomes critically low.[1] On 9 October 2006, the Home Secretary John Reid announced the implementation of Operation Safeguard as the prison population had reached 79,843 leaving only 125 spaces.[2]

The policy is supported by the Association of Chief Police Officers, it outlined a list of criteria for prisoners who should not be held in police station cells under Safeguard, including among others: women, juveniles and those with mental health problems or those involved in a Crown Court trial.

Alternatives to Operation Safeguard

The government has considered several alternatives to Safeguard, including repatriating foreign prisoners to their home country, with a financial incentive.[3] Other ways of reducing the prison population include:

  • Early executive release
  • Deportation of foreign prisoners
  • Use of a prison ship

The Lord Chief Justice, Britain's most senior judge, Lord Phillips has suggested a greater use of community sentences to reduce the pressure on prisons.[4]

See also

  • United Kingdom prison population
  • Prison
  • Prison reform
  • List of prisons in the United Kingdom
  • Prison categories (UK)
  • Prison Officers' Association

References

1. ^Metropolitan Police Authority, Operation Safeguard, 3 Mar 2006, (accessed 10 Oct 2006)
2. ^BBC News Website, Cells plan to ease prisons crisis, 9 Oct 2006, (accessed 10 Oct 2006)
3. ^BBC News website, Tackling UK's overcrowded prisons 5 Oct 2006, (accessed 10 Oct 2006
4. ^BBC News website, Top judge calls for less jailing, 8 Oct 2006, (accessed 10 Oct 2006)

External links

  • UK Government: Home Office
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20040117025237/http://www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk/ UK Government: Prison Service]
  • Prison Officers' Association

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