www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16857388

Here's what we've been waiting for - it isn't quite as good as I'd hoped but there is always the potential for people in parliament to push the Government a bit harder.

Summary:

Community order sentences, currently live for five years, would be spent after a year;

the period for sentences of up to six months in custody would reduce from seven years to two years.

Sentences of 30 months to four years, which are currently never spent, would only remain live for seven years under the plans.

But it isn't quite as dramatic as it sounds, because whilst the current ten-year period runs from the date of conviction, the proposed new period runs from the end of the sentence imposed.

But the rules on sentences of more than four years, also currently never spent, would not change.

I personally don't think this goes far enough - longer term prisoners won't benefit. What do others think?