Privateers have no place in our justice system

Labour’s Richard Burgon vows to return failing probation service to public control
LABOUR will boot failing private firms out of our probation system and return the rehabilitation of prisoners to public hands, shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon pledged yesterday.
Following the Labour Party’s manifesto commitment to review the role of private Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs), Mr Burgon confirmed that it would restore probation to the “high quality service it once was.”
The party would also keep the public safer by reducing reoffending rates. And it would end to the government’s... read more