第二批获释囚犯将包括因犯罪被判处两年半以下刑期的罪犯。多米尼克·卡斯卡尼亚（Dominic Casciani）报道，政府计划应对监狱人口危机的第二阶段将于周二早些时候在英格兰和威尔士释放约650名罪犯。该群体将包括因犯罪被判处两年半以下刑期的罪犯。根据新规定，他们将在服刑三分之一后获释，而不是服刑一半。
Second tranche of prisoners will include those serving up to two and a half years for crimes. By Dominic Casciani 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. The group will include offenders serving up to two and a half years for crimes. Under the new rules, they are leaving jail after serving a third of their sentence behind bars, rather than half.
第二波释放正值政府将其彻底改革刑事法院的计划提交议会审议之时——同时，缓刑官正准备就薪酬和工作量进行投票，此举可能导致罢工。
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.
10月1日早些时候，约有700名罪犯提前获释，他们均服刑不足19个月。
Some 700 offenders left jail early on 1 October - all of whom were serving terms of less than 19 months.
周一的第二阶段将启动分批释放刑期逐渐加长的罪犯的流程——这一过程将持续至明年6月，届时将释放刑期超过12年的罪犯。
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.
缓刑服务工会Napo表示，释放行动给其成员带来了巨大压力，他们负责监管社区中的罪犯。
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.
通常情况下，获释人员应预期在刑期的第二个三分之一期间佩戴电子脚镯并接受其他监控条件。
Typically, those being released should expect to be electronically tagged and subject to other monitoring conditions for the second third of their sentence.
周二，该工会成员将会面讨论下周的投票，此举可能导致罢工行动。司法部（MoJ）已向缓刑官提供5%的加薪方案，而他们曾要求12%的涨幅，以弥补2010年削减导致的收入损失。
On Tuesday, the union's members will meet to discuss next week's vote, which could lead to strike 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.
司法部表示，该方案公平合理，已获另外两个工会接受，并配套7亿英镑投资于缓刑系统，以招聘1300名额外人员并推广人工智能工具以降低监控罪犯的工作量。
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.
法院改革 尽管第二阶段囚犯释放工作已经展开，政府仍在一周前宣布放弃其刑事法院改革计划中最具争议的部分之后，将修订后的计划重新提交给议员审议。
Court reforms 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.
修订后的计划取消了设立一种新形式的王室法院的提议，即由法官独自审理，不设由普通民众组成的陪审团，对面临最高三年监禁的嫌疑人作出裁决。
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.
然而，针对最复杂和持续时间最长的欺诈案件，陪审团审判仍将被取消；此外，通过终止被告申请陪审团审判的权利，将有另外5500起案件留在地方治安法院审理。
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.
政府表示，将在试点项目显示将类似案件归组审理能够加快其在法院中的进程、减少积压之后，扩大所谓“闪电”或“速审”法庭的使用。
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.
奥贝利法院的一项试点项目使得今年夏天涉及对紧急工作人员袭击的500起案件积压减少了一半。
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.
前上诉法院法官布莱恩·利维森爵士对刑事法院进行的重大审查建议，增加被告的虚拟庭审次数，以减少将他们从监狱押解往返所浪费的时间。政府目前已下令开展试点，让被告直接从警方拘留室出庭。
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. The government has now ordered pilots for defendants to appear direct from police cells.
周一，政府宣布已接受利维森爵士提出的180项现代化刑事法院建议中的150多项。
On Monday, the government announced it had accepted more than 150 of his 180 recommendations to modernise the criminal courts.
政府拒绝了他关于保留对志愿治安法官的限制的建议——该限制意味着他们只能判处罪犯最多12个月监禁。在政府的计划下，治安法官将获得判处最高两年监禁的权力——其目标是让更多案件避免进入王室法院，以帮助清理积压案件。
It has rejected his advice to retain a restriction on volunteer magistrates that means they can only jail an offender for 12 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.