News Daily: Probation overhaul cost £500m, and $1m bounty for Bin Laden son
A damning report has found that problems with the part-privatisation of the probation service
in England and Wales have cost taxpayers almost £500m. Changes introduced by the former Justice Secretary Chris Grayling in 2014 saw 21 companies awarded contracts to supervise low and medium-risk offenders, while high-risk offenders remained the responsibility of a new state body, the National Probation Service.
BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw says the report is"scathing" and"raises the most serious questions about decision-making at the Ministry of Justice". Justice minister Rory Stewart says that while the performance of the private probation companies was"too often deeply disappointing", the government did step in to end contracts early, as well as spending an extra £22m a year in services for offenders on release.
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