Home Secretary Used Flawed Data to Privatise Probation Service
transmitter | 30.12.2006 01:41 | Globalisation | Repression
The National Association of Probation Officers has accused the Home Secretary John Reid of using "flawed data" to justify the privatisation of the Probation Service. NAPO said only 53% of people on probation re-offended within two years and not 60%, as the Home Office said. The government is claiming that the Probation Service should be broken up because performance is bad and re-offending rates are too high.
Last month, Probation Boards' Association chairman John Raine criticised the Home Secretary after he made a speech criticising the handling of offenders. He said John Reid had caused "consternation and resentment" across the service with his speech. Mr Reid had described the Probation Service as "poor or mediocre" to an audience of 20 inmates at Wormwood Scrubs prison in west London.
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