 People sentenced in Jersey to life serve the sentence in the UK |
Prisoners from Jersey could be stopped from being released early from UK prisons under proposed new laws. The Home Affairs Committee is bringing forward legislation to ensure British early release schemes do not always apply to prisoners sent to the UK.
The law will mean a court in Jersey can set a period to stop a person serving a life sentence from being eligible to be released early.
But it will only apply if the offender is over the age of 21 when convicted.
At the moment, a person who is sentenced in Jersey to life imprisonment for murder normally serves the sentence in a UK prison.
The Home Affairs Committee said that, if passed, the law would mean that for people who committed the most serious offences "life would mean life".
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