Privatisation has failed again as prisoners are being released without electronic tags

Privatisation has failed again as prisoners are being released without electronic tags

Privatisation has failed again as prisoners are being released without electronic tags.

Responsibility for tagging some convicts who are released from prison lies with the private company Serco – which has had plenty of time to assemble the amount of equipment necessary to fulfil the order because the government made its plan to free up prison space perfectly clear over the last more-than-a-month.

The BBC said one probation officer said the delays in them being fitted appeared to be due to a shortage of tags, while the Ministry of Justice said it was due to a backlog of former prisoners. But isn’t that the same thing? There’s a shortage of tags because there are more former prisoners who should have them.

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Its report continued:

The MoJ blamed security contractor Serco – which manages the prison tagging system – for the delays. Serco said it was working to reduce the numbers waiting for tags.

Prisons minister Lord James Timpson said the delays to tagging were “completely unacceptable” and called what he described as an “urgent meeting with Serco leaders” on Thursday evening.

He said they “accepted the need for immediate action and personally committed to me to eliminate the backlog” – which, Lord Timpson added, he expected would “be done at pace over the coming weeks”.

That’s all very well, but the bottom line is that a private company contracted to carry out a public duty has failed in that duty.

Under a Labour government, Serco should be stripped of that job and it should be restored to public control.

Why is nobody in government saying that?


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