Sentences with phrase «home detention curfews»

In their study into the electronic tagging of adult offenders, the MPs also reveal that 562 assaults were committed by those on home detention curfews - despite the fact that sexual and violent offenders are prohibited from the scheme.

However, as a first - time non-violent offender, he was also eligible for earlier release on Home Detention Curfew (HDC).

An emergency extension to the Home Detention Curfew scheme was ordered by the Home Office in 2003, permitting prisoners to leave early with an electronic tag attached to monitor their movements.

In addition, offenders serving sentences of between three months and four years, with certain exceptions for violent and sexual offenders, may also be eligible for release on a home detention curfew (HDC).

Grant Shapps, the MP for Welwyn and Hatfield, claims this rise is the result of inappropriate prisoners being released early under the Home Detention Curfew (HDC) scheme, in response to a rising prison population.

An issue arose in the calculation of eligibility dates for prisoners with consecutive sentences for home detention curfew, or tagging.

(iv) has not been released earlier than the point for automatic release, eg released on home detention curfew.