Watching bbc news. Just wanted to bring you some breaking news about the figures of overcrowding in prisons. They show that the Prison Population is at a new Record High, 88,521. It has risen by 1159 since the 2nd of august. That is a significant week, when the riots began. As you are aware, lots of new people have entered in the Criminaljustice System so you can see here, from 26th Ofjuly 87400 and that number has continued to rise throughout the weeks of august until they have reached the new Record High 88,521. This comes at a time when thousands of offenders who served 40 of their Prison Terms will be eligible for early release. It is necessary, says the government, because of severe overcrowding injails. There are fewer than 500 spaces now left in men s prison in england and wales, made worse by the convictions of hundreds of people convicted in the riots of last month. We have been given access. Siren blares. Chaos in hmp pentonville. Shouting. We re the only broadcast journalist
Trey did you hear that . The court of Public Opinion, she says. It would have to be the court of Public Opinion because what you will see next week bears no similarity to a real court. In a real court, there is a judge was fair and neutral. Next week, the Presiding Judge is senator Patrick Leahy who has already voted twice to convict and remove donald trump from office. He would never be allowed to preside in a real court. In a real court there is a jury of women and men who have not already made up their minds. That is the only one quality you must have two serve on a real jury in a real court. There are 50 democrats will vote to convict next week no matter what the evidence is. In a real court, the jury is told to wait until the very end to reach any conclusions, in fact, you are forbidden from even beginning to reach conclusions until the very end. But not next week. In a real court, there are rules of evidence, rules about what kind of evidence can be admitted and i doubt you will
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You know it was i think theres some theres a thread to pull on, though, with the breakdown of those numbers. With 3 of those 11 being the 3 republican members of the house from south florida, all of whom were contacted by parkland families saying stand with us and not with her, please. For our kids, for our families, for what weve been through. And all 3 of the south Florida Republicans did that. There is something there thats powerful in terms of what those families have been able to do to turn their grief and loss into something constructive for the country and also to use it to force people to confront the humanity behind these issues. And it is i mean, Fred Guttenberg is an incredibly articulate spokesman for what he believes. But theres a connection that parkland families and sandy hook families and other survivors have been able to take to make them be brave. I have to say i dont know where they get the strength to do it. Im just amazed by Fred Guttenberg and other parents who ha
Today in the broader house regarding Marjorie Taylor greene . Democrats have the majority. We have at least one republican saying theyre vote to remove. So it seems Fait Accompli for her. Reporter this is something hardly ever done. The house taking action to strip a member of an opposing partys Committee Assignments. That is something that could create a precedent that future majorities could certainly replicate. But the democrats say they have to move forward now because of the dangerous views that Marjorie Taylor greene has expressed over her last couple of years, whether it is about the massacres at the Parkland High School in florida, or if it is about the promoting the qanon conspiracy theory. They say there is no room on congressional committees for her and it is time for the house to act. And that is exactly what they will do this afternoon. A simple majority will vote to remove her from the House Budget Committee and the house education committee. Now this came after the repub