Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Bill Debate
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Nick Smith
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Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Bill
Nick Smith ExcerptsFriday 27th April 2018
(5 years, 11 months ago)
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Philip Davies
As usual, Madam Deputy Speaker.
As I have said until I am blue in the face, I would like all sentences handed down by the courts to be served in full. At the very least, however, offenders should not automatically be released halfway through their sentence. That was a scandal—
Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent) (Lab)
I understand why the hon. Gentleman has tabled these measures, and particularly new clause 4, because figures released yesterday show that prisoners attacked officers 2,327 times in the last quarter of 2017 alone. A guard is being hit every hour in our prisons.