What are the ‘radical’ proposed reforms to UK criminal sentencing?

Rather than relying so heavily on custody, the sentencing review recommended an increased use of orders such as community service, fines or curfews. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

A series of “radical” proposed reforms to criminal sentencing have been submitted to ministers by the former justice secretary David Gauke, who has said that, if implemented, they should solve the UK’s prison overcrowding problem. The government has confirmed that most of his recommendations will be accepted. But what are they?

Largely scrap short sentences