A face tattooed prisoner free of jail by Sir Keir Starmer was again behind bars inside 48 hours of his early launch, after allegedly assaulting an ex-partner.
Some 1,700 prisoners had been launched early from their sentences final week within the first section of the Government’s plan to deal with overcrowding.
Last Tuesday’s exodus from jails throughout England and Wales included some convicted killers, and got here after Labour introduced plans in July to quickly reduce the proportion of sentences which inmates should serve behind bars to 40 %.
The Government stated the measures had been obligatory as overcrowding had pushed jails to the “point of collapse”.
Among these let loose was bald-headed former movie star Jason Hoganson, 53, who beamed to the cameras and made a thumbs up signal as he swaggered out from Durham Prison on September 10.
But now it has emerged Hoganson, who was serving an 18-month sentence for assaulting an ex-girlfriend, has been thrown again behind bars simply 48 hours later.
Hoganson, who was launched early after serving solely half of his jail sentence, had a number one position in 1987 Hollywood movie Empire State.
The Telegraph reviews Hoganson appeared earlier than Newcastle Magistrates’ court docket on September 12 and pleaded responsible to at least one depend of breaching a restraining order however not responsible to a second depend. He additionally denied an allegation of assault by beating.
Hoganson was as a result of seem at North Tyneside Magistrates’ court docket by way of video hyperlink from jail on Wednesday September 18, but it surely’s reported he refused to seem and his solicitor spoke on his behalf.
He has been remanded in custody with a trial date listed for October 30 on the South Tyneside Magistrates’ court docket.
In one other blow to former Crown Prosecution Service supremo Sir Keir Starmer, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has introduced there have been delays becoming some early launched offenders with digital monitoring tags.
Prisons and probation minister Lord Timpson is because of have a gathering with safety firm Serco, which took over the MoJ’s tagging contract in May, on Thursday.
An MoJ spokesman stated: “Tagging is an important part of our strategy to keep victims safe and cut reoffending, and there are currently record numbers of offenders wearing tags.
“We are holding Serco to account to deal with delays in becoming some offenders with tags, and can apply monetary penalties in opposition to the corporate if this isn’t resolved shortly.
“While this issue is ongoing, we have prioritised tagging domestic-abuse offenders to make sure their licence conditions, such as staying away from their victims, are strictly followed.”
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