Boris Johnson creates 10,000 prison places in £1.5 billion crime crackdown plan

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged to increase police stop-and-search powers and to create an extra 10,000 places in prisons, saying he wants “criminals to be afraid – not the public.”

The jail cells will be created by building new prisons and expanding existing ones, in what the PM called a “long overdue” investment of up to £2.5 billion ($3 billion). Johnson said the pledge is to ensure he follows through on campaign promises to “properly punish” criminals.

In the Mail on Sunday, Johnson wrote that he wanted to “improve the criminal justice system and make sure criminals are serving the time they are sentenced to” after it was revealed that some prisoners were automatically released halfway through their sentences due to overcrowding.

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They also need to put more police back on the streets though and stop giving people slap on the wrist sentences.