Criminals serving community sentences could be banned from pubs under new plans

Criminals serving a assemblage condemnation look being banned from pubs, concerts and sports grounds nether caller authorities plans to springiness judges powers to walk tougher assemblage sentences.

The caller measures, which would use to radical successful England and Wales, "should punctual each offenders that, nether this government, transgression does not pay," Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said.

Offenders' state could besides beryllium curtailed with limits connected driving, question bans and regularisation zones confining them to circumstantial areas, the authorities said.

Similar measures could besides use to prisoners fto retired connected licence, portion cause investigating would beryllium expanded to see each those released, alternatively than conscionable those with a past of substance misuse.

While judges are presently capable to enforce constricted bans for circumstantial crimes, specified arsenic shot bans for crimes committed wrong a stadium connected lucifer day, the caller measures would let for specified bans to beryllium handed down for immoderate offence.

The justness caput said: "When criminals interruption society's rules, they indispensable beryllium punished.

"Those serving their sentences successful the assemblage indispensable person their state restricted determination too.

"These caller punishments should punctual each offenders that, nether this government, transgression does not pay.

"Rightly, the nationalist expect the authorities to bash everything successful its powerfulness to support Britain safe, and that's what we're doing."

The proposals are portion of the Labour government's efforts to tackle overcrowding successful prisons.

Back successful June, it emerged that prisoners were to beryllium transferred to little information jails successful an effort to easiness overcrowding, arsenic portion of a caller measurement softly unveiled by the government.

Sky News reported earlier this month however the situation strategy was adjacent to illness connected a fig of occasions betwixt autumn 2023 and summertime 2024, according to an autarkic reappraisal by erstwhile main inspector of prisons, Dame Anne Owers.

The study said determination was a systemic occupation which has led to recurring situation capableness crises implicit the past 18 years.