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Thousands more ex-frontline soldiers in the criminal justice system than previously believed

By John Hirst

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Thousands more ex-frontline soldiers in the criminal justice system than previously believed

The number of former soldiers who have been convicted of a crime after returning from the frontline is 4,000 higher than previously thought, it was claimed yesterday.

Elfyn Llwyd told fellow MPs that an estimated 4,000 ex-servicemen were serving community punishments for drug dealing, robbery and sexual offences.

This is in addition to the estimated 8,500 prisoners - one in 10 of the jail population in England and Wales - who probation officers say are in jail after serving the country in Iraq or Afghanistan.

It also emerged that the Ministry of Defence had for the first time commissioned an internal study to try to understand the scale of the problem.

Mr Llwyd said it was a "massive problem": "At a time when serving soldiers have to make do with inferior kit, failure to act on this problem - and to do so positively and urgently - will be seen as further evidence that this Government has breached the covenant with the armed services in the most obvious and serious way.

"With proper support and counselling I believe that several thousands currently in custody would not be there."

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Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on October 22, 2008 (boomark / email).

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