Labour has been accused of pushing dangerous criminals back on the street

I found this article about offenders commiting more crimes after being released from jail.
Latest figures show that the number of crimes commited by serial offenders who have just left prison or begun a communtity punishment have lept to more than half a million a year. The proportion of juvenile criminals who were reconvicted rose year by year. The goverment has missed it's target by cutting numbers by 5% from 2000-2006. It has been suggested that this is due to lenient punishment. Therefore I think that criminals may be more likely to re-offend as the punishment is not harsh enough creating more people who think they can get away with commiting crimes. Labour policies were warned by Britain's most senier police officers that it had undermined confidence in the criminal justice system. Mike Fuller, chief constable of Kent police warned criminals were actually avoiding jail or being freed earlier because of the shortage of prison places. This will make more people commit crimes as they think they have less chance of being punished. Consequently this will make criminal offences rise and create more innocent victums.