Claims extracted
21
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
10%
2 of 21 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
withheld
no quote in the article backed the model's score
Publisher signals
68/100
BBC News's corrections and
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Outlets on this story
5
Crime & Law
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
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About 650 more offenders will leave jails in England and Wales early on Tuesday in the second phase of the government's plan to tackle the prison population crisis.
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offenders → publish → crisis
The group will include offenders serving up to two and a half years for crimes.
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group → include → crimes
Under the new rules, they are leaving jail after serving a third of their sentence behind bars, rather than half.
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they → leave → bars
The second wave of releases comes as the government takes its plan to radically overhaul criminal courts back to Parliament - but also as probation officers prepare to vote in a ballot that could lead to a strike over pay and workload.
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that → come → pay
Some 700 offenders left jail early on 1 October - all of whom were serving terms of less than 19 months.
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all → leave → months
Monday's second stage begins the process of releasing batches of offenders serving increasingly long sentences - culminating next June with those serving more than 12 years.
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stage → begin → years
Napo, the probation service union, said the releases have put enormous strain on its members, who are charged with monitoring the offenders in the community.
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who → say → community
Typically, those being released should expect to be electronically tagged and subject to other monitoring conditions for the second third of their sentence.
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those → release → sentence
On Tuesday, the union's members will meet to discuss next week's vote, which could lead to strike action.
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which → meet → action
Probation officers have been offered a 5% pay rise by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), while it had demanded 12% as part of a plan to make up for loss of earnings caused by cuts from 2010.
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it → offer → 2010
The MoJ says the offer is fair and has been accepted by two other unions and is twinned with a £700m investment in probation to recruit 1,300 extra officers and the roll-out of AI tools to cut the workload of monitoring offenders.
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offer → say → offenders
While the second phase of prison releases gets under way, the government is bringing its criminal court reform plan back before MPs, after announcing a week ago that it had abandoned the most controversial element of it.
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it → get → it
The revised plan drops proposals for a new form of Crown Court where a judge alone, sitting without a jury of ordinary people, would reach a verdict against suspects facing up to three years in prison.
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judge → revise → prison
However, jury trials will still be scrapped for the most complex and long fraud cases - and another 5,500 trials will be kept in the lower magistrates court by ending a defendant's right to ask for a jury trial.
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trials → scrap → trial
The government says it will expand the use of so-called "blitz" or "short trial" courts after pilots have shown that grouping similar cases together can speed up their progression through the courts - cutting backlogs.
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grouping → say → backlogs
One of the pilots at the Old Bailey led to the London backlog of 500 cases concerning assaults on emergency workers being cut in half over the summer.
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backlog → lead → summer
A major review of criminal courts by former appeal judge Sir Brian Leveson recommended more virtual hearings for defendants to slash wasted time bringing them to and from cells.
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defendants → recommend → cells
The government has now ordered pilots for defendants to appear direct from police cells.
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defendants → order → cells
On Monday, the government announced it had accepted more than 150 of his 180 recommendations to modernise the criminal courts.
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it → announce → courts
It has rejected his advice to retain a restriction on volunteer magistrates that means they can only jail an offender for 12 months.
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they → reject → months
Under the government's plan magistrates will have the power to jail for up to two years - the aim being to keep more cases out of Crown Court, to help clear backlogs.
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aim → have → backlogs
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