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Electronic monitoring: in flight to where?
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) session on the National Audit Office’s (NAO) report on the...
Publication
Grayling's failings on electronic monitoring
But as he points out, the electronic monitoring fiasco was more than just a story of unrealistic plans, shifting specifications and incompetent management. It was also the story of a politically-driven attempt, particularly by the former Justice Secretary Chris Grayling, to reshape aspects of the...
News
Scrap 'vanity project' tagging scheme call
Our Director, Richard Garside, today called on the Ministry of Justice to scrap its 'vanity project' GPS tagging programme, and focus its energies on more pressing problems, such as the prisons and probation crises.
His call came in response to a...
Comment
Doing bad policy well
Two developments this month point to deep problems at the heart of the prison and probation systems in England and Wales.
Grim news on prisons
On prisons,...
News
Whitehall can't scrutinise over £20 billion of outsourcing contracts
Two thirds of the £35 billion worth of government contracts held by private companies can't be scrutinised properly by Whitehall, reports The Guardian...
News
Government guarantees private prisons will not face closure
Government ministers and civil servants reguarly extol the virtues of a 'level playing field' when it comes to the delivery of public services. Neither the public, private nor voluntary sectors should have an unfair advantage when it comes to competing on cost, quality or delivery,...
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Working to the contract
Earlier this month, in the briefest of press releases, the...