Prison Reform Trust Advice and Information Service

It will operate for releases from the 7th April 2020 for the duration of the ‘Transmission Control Period’ as set by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Criteria for ECTR There are three levels of criteria which must be met to be suitable for release on ECTR: 1. [...] Criteria set out in the Direction made by the Secretary of State Within the statutory criteria, the Secretary of State can decide who should be considered for release by setting policy criteria and restrictions. [...] Not be serving a sentence of any length for any of the violent or sexual offences specified in Schedule 15 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, or one on the list of further violent and sexual offences set out in Annex A of the End of Custody Temporary Release guidance. [...] However, the Secretary of State has decided that the appropriate procedure to consider the release of prisoners on the basis of health conditions or particular vulnerability during the Covid-19 outbreak is through Release on Temporary Licence (ROTL). [...] Decisions will be made by individual prisons as to whether to recommend temporary release, but all proposed releases must be endorsed by the Deputy Director of Prisons on behalf of the Secretary of State before the release can take place.