Another 1,100 prisoners will be released next week under Labour’s early release scheme – after offenders began committing crime within hours as the last batch was released

A further 1,100 prisoners will be released early next week under Labour’s controversial early release plan.

The offenders will be the second round of prisoners to be released in a bid to free up space in British prisons.

However, some of the 1,700 convicts released in September began committing crimes within hours of their release, with the first returning to prison after just 36 hours.

It is believed the prisoner failed to show up at a pre-arranged address, leading to probation officers alerting police who took him back into custody.

Another was accused of sexually assaulting a woman just an hour after she was released.

The 31-year-old repeat offender is alleged to have assaulted a female prison worker while getting a lift to a train station.

A prisoner leaving HMP Liverpool on September 10 as part of the scheme (file photo)

People spray a man with sparkling wine after he left HMP Nottingham on September 10 (file photo)

This is when police immediately re-arrested a man at the prison gate after he was released

The man was among a small group of prisoners who were given a lift from HMP Swaleside on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, to Sittingbourne station, 11 miles away, as a ‘gesture of goodwill’.

He quickly left the vehicle and took a train to London, but was arrested in Croydon the next day.

The released prisoner was immediately recalled to prison as a result of the incident, a British Transport Police spokesman said.

In a separate case, a man was arrested on suspicion of rape and sexual assault just seconds after leaving Wandsworth prison in south-west London.

The 28-year-old man was handcuffed and taken away in a waiting police van, raising questions about why he was in line for parole in the first place.

Shockingly, 37 prisoners were also accidentally released after a system error, authorities admitted.

Justice Ministry sources said 37 prisoners, all jailed for violating restraining orders, were accidentally released.

Prisoners seen leaving HMP Brixton prison on September 10 (file photo)

Pictured: HMP Swaleside in Kent, where a man arrested on suspicion of sexual assault was held

Stalkers and domestic abusers were among those accidentally released.

The early release scheme has been reduced the proportion of a sentence that most perpetrators have to serve behind bars varies from 50 to 40 percent.

The first round of releases in mid-September saw 1,700 prisoners released early, reducing the prison population from a record 88,521 to 86,333.

The number has since risen again, reaching 87,028 on Friday, just below the level when Justice Minister Shabana Mahmood announced the plans in July.

Ms Mahmood had then warned that prisons risked running out of space, potentially causing the collapse of the justice system, as courts had nowhere to send convicted criminals.

The early release scheme does not apply to some prisoners, including those convicted of sexual abuse, domestic violence or terrorism offences, or to violent offenders serving more than four years in prison.

In September, 37 prisoners were wrongly released after their sentences were not properly recorded. Ms Mahmood confirmed on Thursday that all 37 were back in custody.

Ms Mahmood is expected to launch a sentencing review this week, which is likely to consider several reforms, including whether tougher community sentences would be more effective than short stints in prison.

Justice Minister Shabana Mahmood’s (pictured) program, known as SDS40, allows criminals to be released after serving 40 percent of their sentence instead of half, due to prison overcrowding

This follows her announcement that magistrates’ sentencing powers will be doubled again, allowing them to lock up criminals for up to a year.

The move is intended to tackle the backlog at the Crown Courts and reduce the number of remand prisoners awaiting sentence, but the Justice Secretary acknowledged that this would initially ‘bring a slight increase in the overall prison population ‘.

But the Criminal Bar Association warned that expanding magistrates’ powers would have a ‘backward effect in both the short and long term’ as it could ‘greatly increase’ the overall prison population within months.