Victims of Crime Commissioner reacts to news several prisoners saw time taken off their sentences

Victims of Crime Commissioner Fiona McCormack has weighed in on the news prisoners, who were in prison during COVID, will have time taken off their sentence due to good behaviour.

She says she wants to know what the criteria was which resulted in significant reductions for prisoner and if it included the potential risk posed to the community by offenders.

“We’re talking about people who have been victims of violent assault, or lost somebody because a family member has been murdered,” she told Jacqui Felgate.

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