This is one subject that really gets me riled up. I understand why certain prisoners might be released early, such as thieves, embezzlers and so on. If there is no violence in the crime, no intent to harm others, and the prisoners has behaved well in prison, I can see where the state would let them free early.

To my mind however, someone convicted of a terrorism offence, would be considered as committing a violent crime. Wouldn’t you? Apparently the government did not think so, and has subsequently reversed that policy.

Easing overcrowding in our prisons, anyone’s prisons for that matter, should be done by releasing non-violent criminals. Or alternatively BUILD MORE PRISONS! As I have said a number of times, the United Kingdom or Great Britain is comprised of hundreds of islands. Why not find some remote islands and build prisons on them? Make the prisoners grow their own food, tend crops and livestock, and spend less of the citizens’ tax money.