{"id":267900,"date":"2025-11-07T14:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T14:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/267900\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T14:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T14:12:09","slug":"algerian-sex-offender-mistakenly-released-from-wandsworth-prison-arrested-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/267900\/","title":{"rendered":"Algerian sex offender mistakenly released from Wandsworth prison arrested – live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

As colossal messes go, the justice system is one Labour want to clean uppublished at 19:18 GMT 6 November<\/p>\n

19:18 GMT 6 November<\/p>\n

\"\"Chris Mason
Political editor<\/p>\n

Out of complexity, simplicity. The justice system in England and Wales is repeatedly failing in that most basic of its tasks \u2013 who should be in prison
\nand who shouldn’t.<\/p>\n

Fanciful escapes from jail are no longer de rigueur it seems,
\nwhen so many are let out the front gate by accident. <\/p>\n

David Lammy\u2019s difficult
\ninheritance as justice secretary \u2013 he\u2019s done the job for two months \u2013
\nunfortunately garnished, his critics say, by his own handling of it. <\/p>\n

But it is
\nalso true that of all the things Labour took on when they won last year, as
\ncolossal messes go, the justice system was at or near the top. Sufficiently so
\nit probably contributed to Rishi Sunak\u2019s decision to call the general election
\nmonths early, so spectacularly was the system creaking. <\/p>\n

It is Labour\u2019s problem
\nnow, though. <\/p>\n

And it is at its sharpest politically when transparent recurring
\nfailure in the justice system overlaps with transparent recurring failure in
\nthe immigration system \u2013 whether that is small boats, or legal migration. <\/p>\n

In
\nother words, exactly what\u2019s happened in the last week or so. <\/p>\n

Stark, instantly
\nunderstood case studies in state failure, in an era where there is a sticky
\nvibe that says \u2013 fairly or otherwise — nothing works any more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As colossal messes go, the justice system is one Labour want to clean uppublished at 19:18 GMT 6…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-267900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}