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Mother, campaigner, survivor. Media: [email protected] [email protected]. YouTube @mrsemmawebber Foundation: https://t.co/5XXhqKTklW

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Today I signed the letter to the Lord Chancellor opposing any early release for those convicted of manslaughter. Because if you've taken a life, there should be no early release. Not in prison. Not under a hospital order. Nowhere. It cannot stop at prison sentences. It must include offenders detained under hospital orders too. For decades, victims in the forensic mental health system have been ignored while life-changing decisions are made behind closed doors. 9 in 10 restricted patients are discharged within 10 years. These are mental health criminals like Calocane. The criminal justice system is failing victims. The forensic mental health system is failing victims. And politicians are failing victims. Now we're told prisons are full and "difficult decisions" have to be made. Rubbish… Prison overcrowding wasn't caused by victims. Court backlogs weren't caused by victims. Chronic underfunding of justice wasn't caused by victims. The department responsible for our courts, prisons, probation and public protection receives in an entire year what is spent elsewhere in government in around two weeks. That isn't a justice system failure. That's political failure. Build prisons. Clear the backlog. Fund justice properly. Reform the system. But stop asking bereaved families to accept less accountability because governments failed to do their job. Victims don't get early release from grief. Why should offenders get early release from the consequences of taking a life?

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