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Simply put - For those working in the Probation and Prison service; we are well aware that from 2000 there were several changes to the structure of sentences of offenders.  Namely that the indeterminate sentence may have been brought in in 2008 but it was prior to that that the discourse began and drafts were made.  Under Conservatives. 

Now I am not one to point fingers, (for then there are three pointing back at me) but let's get one thing straight. 

Due to austerity, there was a need to reduce numbers in prison, over the last 20 years, the privatisation of the services has led to a reduction in proper control of who gets out and who stays in.  I myself was subject to a complaint when an offender wanted to change his name on the database to a 'pen-name' and i refused as it would have meant that we (the services) would not have been able to marry his details to that held by any other CJS department or Service. 

So just in case anyone is aching to blame Labour or Conservative, think on, the thirst for saving money, by society, because someone is always going on about how much the Government spends, or how in debt Britain is; should consider what the money is spent on.  And no, don't bother blame money sent to the EU for the debt we are in.  Do you know how much money the EU has spent on our Services???  When Britain actually paid back the debt for the 2nd World War to the IMF or how much the Falksland War cost?  or How much the .... need I go on...