在他们庆祝提前出狱的那一刻……第一批获释人员于周四开始出狱；根据政府的计划，预计英格兰和威尔士将有700名囚犯被释放，以缓解监狱过度拥挤的问题。
周四，从多所监狱获释的囚犯们遭到了一群记者的围堵，这些记者希望他们能向首相传达个人信息。
as they celebrated walking free from jail early. The first wave of releases began on Thursday, with 700 offenders expected to be freed across England and Wales under the government’s plan to ease prison overcrowding.
这一举措是在2024年凯尔·斯塔默执政期间实施的“提前释放计划”失败之后作出的。当时，一些囚犯在获释后手持香槟瓶，高喊“感谢斯塔默”（“Big up Starmer”）。
Those released from dozens of prisons under the government’s latest early release scheme on Thursday were greeted by huddles of journalists requesting their personal messages for the prime minister.
在首批获释者中，有一位名叫迈克尔·博格尔（Michael Bogle）的38岁男子——他原本是一名公交车司机，后来沦为商店扒手。他来自伦敦北部的布伦特（Brent）地区。博格尔从伦敦南部的旺兹沃斯监狱（HMP Wandsworth）出狱时，阳光明媚。这所监狱近期曾多次陷入丑闻。
It follows the damaging early release scheme under Keir Starmer in 2024 when offenders were photographed holding bottles of champagne while saying “Big up Starmer”. Among the first releases, a former bus driver turned shoplifter, Michael Bogle, 38, from Brent, north London, stepped into the sunlight outside HMP Wandsworth, a south London prison notable for a string of recent scandals. Having served 78 days in prison after breaching a 32-week suspended sentence for shoplifting, he was released early and was pleased that he had been given a place in a bail hostel in south-east London.
由于违反缓刑规定（原本应服刑32周，实际仅服刑了78天），博格尔被提前释放，并对政府为他安排了伦敦东南部的临时住所表示满意。当被问及想对伯纳姆（Burnham）说什么时，他说：“希望政府能继续推行这项提前释放政策——这真的很好。”博格尔曾因50项罪名被判处监禁，他表示自己之所以偷窃，只是为了“维持生计”。
Asked for his message to Burnham, he said: “Keep the early release going. It’s good.”Bogle, who has been jailed five separate times for 100 convictions, said he was driven to shoplift “so he could eat” after being made homeless.
博格尔称监狱环境“极其糟糕”，并指出监狱内毒品泛滥；他也表示自己有可能再次犯罪，但希望“别真的发生”。
Prison was “terrible”, Bogle said, adding that there were “too many drugs”. He said there was a risk he would shoplift again “but hopefully not”.
在英格兰东北部的达勒姆监狱（HMP Durham）外，一名囚犯穿着短裤、T恤和运动鞋，提着装有个人物品的塑料袋离开监狱时对媒体说：“这个司法系统……到底算什么司法系统？谢谢你们，安迪·伯纳姆！”
Outside HMP Durham in north-east England, a prisoner, dressed in shorts, a T-shirt and trainers and holding his belongings in a bin bag, said to the press as he left the prison: “Justice system, what justice system? Thank you Andy Burnham.”
另一名从卡迪夫监狱（HMP Cardiff）出狱的囚犯在被问及是否有话想对首相说时回答：“非常感谢你们，千万别让我再回到这里了！”
A man leaving HMP Cardiff, who was asked if he had a message for the prime minister, said: “Thank you very much and don’t get me back here again, bro.”
这些囚犯只是政府为缓解监狱拥挤、避免司法系统崩溃而被迫释放的数千名囚犯中的一小部分罢了。斯塔默以及之前的保守党政府都曾推行过类似的计划。
Theprisoners are among thousands the government has been forced to let out to free up space in overcrowded jails and stop the collapse of the justice system. Starmer and previous Tory administrations had presided over similar plans.
在未来一个月内，大约2000名罪犯（包括家庭暴力实施者和暴力犯罪者）将被释放；另外3000名罪犯将在未来一年内分阶段获释，以缓解监狱过度拥挤的问题。这一数字是从最初的6000名罪犯中削减下来的。
那些因过失杀人罪而被判刑的囚犯也将被排除在释放名单之外；因此，2019年在执行任务时遇害的警官安德鲁·哈珀的凶手将不符合释放条件。
About 2,000 criminals including domestic abusers and violent offenders are to be freed over the next month, with another 3,000 in stages over the next year to ease overcrowding. The number was reduced from 6,000 after an intervention by Burnham Prisoners guilty of manslaughter will also be excluded, meaning the killers of PC Andrew Harper, who died in the line of duty in 2019, will not be eligible.
过去三个月里，监狱在押人数增加了1700多人。根据英国司法部（MoJ）的数据，英格兰和威尔士的监狱关押人数为87,499人，而6月29日时这一数字为85,761人，增幅为1,738人（即2%）。司法部表示，获释的罪犯将受到“英国历史上最严格的监管”。
The number of people behind bars has jumped by more than 1,700 in the past three months. The prison population in England and Wales was 87,499 on Monday, according to Ministry of Justice (MoJ) data. This is up from 85,761 on 29 June, a rise of 1,738, or 2%. The MoJ said released offenders would be monitored under the “toughest supervision in British history”.
受害者权益专员克莱尔·瓦克斯曼指出：“政府对这一计划的信心与现实情况还存在差距。”
The victims’ commissioner, Claire Waxman, said the government’s confidence in the plan “is not yet matched by the reality on the ground”.
作为下议院司法委员会主席的德比北选区工党议员凯瑟琳·阿特金森表示：“在长达十年的政策失灵之后，这些释放措施实在是一种无奈之举。”她强调：“受害者的安全以及公众的安全必须放在首位。”她还指出：“关于缓刑人员及监狱工作人员所面临的压力、电子监控系统的有效性，以及该系统在未来几个月内能否顺利帮助罪犯重新融入社会，仍存在许多疑问。”
The Labour MP for Derby North, Catherine Atkinson, who is chair of the Commons justice committee, said the releases were “regretfully a matter of necessity after more than a decade of policy failure to manage the estate’s long-running capacity issues”. The safety of victims and the public “must be paramount”, she said, adding: “Serious questions remain over the pressures on probation and prison staff, the effectiveness of electronic monitoring, as well as the system’s readiness to manage the return of offenders back into communities in the coming months.”
司法部长亚历克斯·诺里斯表示：“我们理解受害者在罪犯获释前所面临的焦虑，但真正威胁受害者安全的其实是监狱可能无法容纳那些危险罪犯的情况——而这正是本届政府接手时就已经存在的危机。”
The justice secretary, Alex Norris, said: “We understand the anxiety victims face ahead of offenders’ release dates, but the greatest danger to victims would be prisons running out of cells for dangerous criminals, which was the crisis this government inherited.
“我们的计划将通过新建1.4万个监禁设施，并对罪犯实施迄今为止最严格的管控措施，确保此类事件不再发生；这样一来，罪犯将无处可藏，我们也必定能够随时监视到他们的动向。”这一举措恰逢新法律年度伊始之际：司法部长在伦敦市中心皇家法院举行的仪式上宣誓就任大法官。他在仪式上向英格兰和威尔士的最高级别法官们承诺，将在解决积压的诉讼案件方面全力以赴、力求取得显著成效。
“Our plan will make sure this never happens again by building 14,000 prison places while subjecting offenders to the toughest-ever controls, leaving them nowhere to hide and under no doubt that we are watching them.”The move coincides with the justice secretary being sworn in as lord chancellor at a ceremony at the Royal Courts of Justice in central London on the first day of the new legal year, where he vowed to the most senior judges in England and Wales that he would be “ambitious” in his effort to cut the backlog of court cases.