英国第三批提前释放约650名囚犯：19岁家暴犯出狱做持枪手势、毒贩感谢首相
英国英格兰与威尔士11月10日执行政府提前释放计划的第三批释放，约650名囚犯当天走出监狱。这是为缓解监狱过度拥挤而推出的分批释放安排的最新一波，获释者刑期在882天以上、1163天以下，按新规只需服满刑期的三分之一即可出狱，此前为二分之一。
据英国广播公司报道，自10月1日首批释放以来，已有至少1350名囚犯提前出狱；整个计划将在今后一年内分批释放约5000人，明年6月将轮到刑期12年以上者。司法部数据显示，英格兰与威尔士在押人数11月9日为86,982人。强奸犯、最严重的儿童性犯罪者、过失杀人犯、恐怖分子与被判无期徒刑的谋杀犯不在释放之列；官方称获释者原则上都将被装上GPS电子脚环，并接受其所称英国史上最严的社区监管。
据《太阳报》在监狱外记录，19岁的 Jake Sharp 从提赛德的 Holme House 监狱获释时咧嘴笑着比出持枪手势，称提前出狱「太棒了」。Sharp 来自 Stockton-on-Tees，此前因威胁杀害并掐勒一名女性、以多项家暴罪名入狱。同日获释的19岁毒贩 Isa Salim 在 Middlesbrough 因贩毒与持刀于今年5月被判3年，他抱着一袋在狱中为母亲做的泰迪熊走出监狱，被问及有什么话对首相说时答道：「干得好，谢谢。」伯明翰、Durham 与伦敦 Wandsworth 等地当天也有囚犯获释。
提前释放持续引发受害者团体与警方的担忧。大曼彻斯特警察局长 Stephen Watson 表示，10月释放到该地区的人中已有22%重新被关回监狱。家暴支援组织 Refuge 主席 Hetti Barkworth-Nanton 说，一些幸存者因害怕施暴者获释，已躲进远离家乡的庇护所。
About 650 Prisoners Freed in Third Wave of UK Early Release: 19-Year-Old Domestic Abuser Made Gun Gesture, Drug Dealer Thanked the Prime Minister
England and Wales carried out the third wave of the government's early release scheme on November 10, with about 650 prisoners walking out of jail that day. The releases are the latest stage of a phased plan to ease prison overcrowding: this cohort was serving more than 882 days and fewer than 1,163 days, and under the new rules leaves after serving no more than a third of the sentence behind bars, rather than half.
According to the BBC, at least 1,350 offenders had already been released early since the first wave on October 1, and about 5,000 are due to be freed in stages over the coming year, culminating next June with those serving more than 12 years. Ministry of Justice figures put the prison population of England and Wales at 86,982 on November 9. Rapists, the most serious child sex offenders, people convicted of manslaughter, terrorists and murderers on life sentences are excluded. Officials say those freed will in principle be fitted with GPS tags and face what the government calls the toughest supervision in British history.
The Sun recorded scenes outside the prisons: Jake Sharp, 19, grinned and made gun signs as he left Holme House jail in Teesside, saying early release was, in his words, spot on. Sharp, from Stockton-on-Tees, had been jailed for multiple domestic abuse offences after threatening to kill and strangling a woman. Also freed was Isa Salim, 19, jailed for three years in May for drug dealing and possessing a knife in Middlesbrough; carrying a bag containing a teddy bear he had made in prison for his mother, he replied, when asked for a message for the Prime Minister: Nice one, thank you. Prisoners were also released in Birmingham, Durham and Wandsworth in London.
The scheme continues to draw concern from victims' groups and police. Greater Manchester's chief constable, Sir Stephen Watson, said 22 percent of those released into his area in October were already back inside. Hetti Barkworth-Nanton, who chairs the domestic abuse charity Refuge, said some survivors had gone into refuges away from home out of fear of their perpetrator being released.
来源：英国广播公司
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图片来源：英国伦敦Wandsworth监狱正楼（资料图，该监狱是本批释放地点之一）。图：Geograph贡献者，CC BY-SA 2.0，经维基共享资源 / Front block of HMP Wandsworth, London (file photo; the prison was among the sites releasing inmates in this wave). Photo via Geograph, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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