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Napo, the probation officers' union estimates that 75 terrorists who received sentences less than 11 years will be freed in the next three to four years.
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Shadow Justice Secretary, Dominic Grieve said: 'The Government needs to give assurances that everything necessary is being done to protect the public.
'With cuts to frontline probation services, Ministers must explain how they intend to ensure proper monitoring of potentially dangerous individuals that have been released.'
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Originally Posted by jw74
That's an interesting idea and I hope you're right. With the idiocy of the press and the toothlessness of politicians, I'm getting ridiculously cynical.
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We may be getting Drudged on this. The
Daily Mail is virulently hostile to the Labour Party as rebooted by Tony Blair, whom the paper evidently despises. (A sampling of editorials related to Blair and Labour is available
here.) I do not know if the broadsheet's editorial perspective makes the release of these folks any more or less alarming--it just suggests that there may be much more to the story than reported.