Failing Grayling’s probation sell-off scrapped…as Tories outsource more prisons
One step forward, one step back…
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Government U-turns on “disastrous” probation privatisation
Critics said the privatisation cost the taxpayer and endangered the public.
Privatisation fail: 8 out of 21 probation contracts scuppered in just a month
This is the second time in just a month that a private company running probation services has hit crisis point.
How privatising probation services has damaged our justice system
“It cannot be right for an individual to leave custody with £46 to last them a number of weeks, nowhere to live and no job.”
The cracks are growing in the UK’s privatised prison and probation service
Three years on from part-privatisation, staff and organisations working in the criminal justice sector are struggling to cope
Failing privatised probation services must be nationalised, say unions
Firms are being bailed out with public money amid a rise in serious offenses under privatisation.
Privatising probation puts public safety at risk
What the government is proposing goes against everything we know about cutting re-offending
Four regressive things the coalition has done to the criminal justice system
The Guardian reported this week that prison governors have been ordered to cut costs by £149m a year. Cuts aren’t the only regressive thing the coalition are doing to the criminal justice system, however.
Would you hand supervision of offenders to companies with no experience of providing probation services?
The government’s plans to sell-off the probation service will be pushed to a vote on today by Labour MPs.
Comment: why is outsourcing wrong?
With the memory of the G4S debacle at the beginning of the summer still sore, today’s news that the government plans to outsource huge swathes of the probation service will be met by cynicism and concern. British government use oftest