Alex Norris: “Were we not to make these changes, then we would run out of prison places in this October or November. I know that’s…”

It is really important to express that this shouldn't be where it is.

If we drew it any wider we would have a prison capacity crisis.

I know that’s difficult. I know that’s created harm, and it’s not Lissie Harper’s fault, and I’m sorry that she’s been put into this situation as a result, I genuinely am.

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.