#electronic-tagging

[ follow ]
UK politics
fromwww.bbc.com
5 days ago

Court backlog needs 'urgent action' says Met chief

About 30% of offenders who should be electronically tagged were not, tag breaches occur weekly, courts often default to bail, and public confidence has fallen.
UK politics
fromwww.independent.co.uk
6 days ago

Probation is in perpetual crisis. How can it cope with prison reforms?

Mass expansion of electronic tagging risks failure because the understaffed, poorly performing Probation Service lacks trained officers and adequate frontline funding.
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The Guardian view on criminal justice reform: community sentencing can't be done on the cheap | Editorial

Probation under-resourcing risks increased serious violent crime unless probation capacity is urgently expanded before shifting more offenders into community supervision.
[ Load more ]