Alex Norris (British politician)

British politician (born 1984)

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I have heard the strength of feeling ​on the proposals for increasing the number of judge-alone trials in the Crown Court and have made the decision ‌to change course,
We understand the anxiety victims face ahead of offenders’ release dates, but the greatest danger to victims would be prisons running out of cells for dangerous criminals, which was the crisis this government inherited.... Our plan will make sure this never happens again by building 14,000 prison places while subjecting offenders to the toughest-ever controls, leaving them nowhere to hide and under no doubt that we are watching them.”
Magistrates embody the very best of public service. They give their time, experience and judgement to make vital decisions that help ensure justice is delivered fairly in communities across the country. “... I’m calling on the public to play their part — we need more people from all walks of life to step forward and become their local magistrate.”
This government is serious about fixing the broken prison system we inherited, which is why we’ve already delivered more than 3,200 prison places in just two years,
Those wouldn’t necessarily be the numbers I’d use, but it is possible that places come out of the estate. For example, you know, there can be damage, fire damage. We’ve got a very old estate. “... I talk about the biggest prison-building programme since the Victorian era. Well, that means that a lot of our estate is Victorian estate.”
We will be talking through our victim liaison officers to victims and survivors to ask them how they live their lives, so that we can design the restrictions on their perpetrator, so that they live around their victims and survivors, rather than the other way round, which has been the case for far too long.”

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