The plan, part of the Offender Rehabilitation Bill unveiled in this week's Queen's Speech, is one of a series of government measures to extend and improve the supervision of offenders once they leave prison in an effort to resettle them into the community better and cut the risk of reoffending.
Currently, young offenders who receive a detention and training order will, like many adult offenders, serve half their sentence in prison and half supervised in the community.
But under the proposed new system, all offenders aged over 18 when they leave custody will be supervised in the community for 12 months, even if they were under 18 when sentenced.
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