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CRIMINALS will be ordered to fill in potholes and collect the bins instead of going to prison, under government proposals.

The radical plans have been drawn up in a bid to ease the jail overcrowding crisis.

Shabana Mahmood giving a speech at a podium.
Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood is drawing up radical changes to law and order to ease the prison overcrowding crisisCredit: PA

Convicts will also be sentenced to work and have their wages handed over to victims and victims charities under the shake-up.

Britain is in the grip of a severe prisons overcrowding crisis – and has already released lags early to free up cells.

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood is looking at radical plans to send fewer convicts to jail.

Individuals facing imprisonment for less than a year will be exempt from jail time in all but exceptional cases, as part of the contentious reforms being introduced this week.

To offset this, Ms Mahmood wants to massively toughen up community sentences.

A source close to the Justice Secretary said “With prisons so close to collapse, we are going to have to punish more offenders outside of prison. 

“We need punishment to be more than just a soft option or a slap on the wrist. 

“To demonstrate that crime doesn’t pay, we must have offenders engaged in free labor—with the wages they would have earned redirected to compensate their victims.

“Furthermore, we need them performing tasks that the public finds valuable—not merely removing graffiti, but also repairing potholes and maintaining cleanliness in public areas.”

Currently, convicts sentenced to community work tend to volunteer at places like charity shops.

Violent criminals serving long sentences could be let out of prison early under Labour’s radical new reforms

Under the new proposals, Ms Mahmood will work with private companies, like supermarkets, to give criminals jobs.

This could include stacking shelves or on the checkout.

Their wages would be taken out at source and handed to victims or victims charities. 

Councils will also be able to assign jobs they want done to convicts who do not get jail terms.

This can include things like filling in potholes, clearing rubbish bins and scrubbing graffiti.

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Convicts could soon be handed sentences to fill in potholes and collect your rubbish bins in law and order shake-upCredit: Getty
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