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Plans To 'Privatise' Probation Officers Of Sex Offenders, Gang Members?

PA | Posted 17.02.2013 | UK

Some 2,300 sex offenders will be among the criminals whose supervision is outsourced to private contractors under Government reforms to probation, it ...

Cost Cuts 'Pressure Court Services'

PA | Posted 25.10.2012 | UK

The court service is under "unprecedented pressure" and the fair administration of justice is being "severely undermined" by cost-cutting, a union sai...

Probation Union Call For Review

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 13.08.2012 | UK

A thorough review of the effectiveness and efficiency of tagging offenders is needed before the system is extended any further, the probation union Na...

Probation Machines To Replace People..

PA | Posted 28.06.2012 | UK

Plans for criminals to report to a machine instead of a probation officer in a bid to cut costs defy belief and risk increasing offending, a union war...

Community Payback Scheme Promises Hard Labour - But Is It Spin For Cost-Cutting?

The Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 24.10.2011 | UK Politics

The Ministry of Justice has announced changes to community service guidelines which it says will see offenders performing “hard labour”. But ...