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<p>The Home Detention Curfew (HDC) scheme allows for the early release of offenders
serving sentences of at least 12 weeks but no more than four years. Eligible prisoners
can be released up to 135 days before their automatic release date but HDC is only
permitted where the offender can provide a suitable, probation approved address to
which they can be curfewed. Foreign National Offenders who have received a decision
to deport are statutorily excluded from HDC, and those being considered for removal
but whose decision is yet to be made are presumed unsuitable.</p><p> </p><p>The End
of Custody Temporary Release (ECTR) scheme allows for the release of low risk offenders
who are within two months of their automatic release date. Foreign national offenders
who are being removed from the UK and who have exhausted in-country rights of appeal
against removal are statutorily excluded from ECTR.</p><p> </p><p>No prisoner is released
through the ECTR scheme is granted this unless suitable accommodation is identified
first.</p>
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