Comment

Flawed procurement

When I was appointed as EM Procurement Contract Manager in 2010, the Ministry of Justice’s commercial relationship with both G4S and Serco EM appeared to be one of mistrust.

26 May 2023
Comment

Unbalanced management

As the Ministry of Justice’s Electronic Monitoring Procurement Contract Manager between 2010 and 2012, I gained insight into both management of the existing EM contract and plans for potential future arrangements.

19 May 2023
News

Whiff of scandal over electronic monitoring

The Centre for Crime and Justice today called for the use of electronic monitoring (so-called “tagging”) as part of a criminal justice sanction to be based on proper evidence and guided by clear principles.

21 October 2022
News

Electronic monitoring regulator needed

An electronic monitoring regulator should be established to ensure that intrusive monitoring technologies are only used when there are clear ethical and practical grounds for doing so.

22 June 2022
Comment

Electronic monitoring curfews: Back with a vengeance

Seasoned observers of Ministry of Justice White Papers since 2010 could be forgiven for thinking that the latest one has been written by a singularly dim and unsophisticated algorithm.

14 December 2020
News

GPS offender tagging farce tied to privatised probation

In a letter in today's Guardian, tagging expert Mike Nellis calls for the 'over-complex, outsourced infrastructure set in place to manage the mass expansion of GPS tracking' to be dismantled', to be replaced by 'a modest and sensible use of tagging.. properly integrated into a restored, publicly owned probation service, as it mostly is in mainland Europe'.

The Centre is currently working with Mike Nellis and partners across the penal reform sector to explore the possibilities for a progressive vision for the future of electronic monitoring. This followed a private...

29 January 2018