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Tuesday, June 1, 2004 |
Civil liberty campaigners said last night they would raise no fundamental objections to plans to introduce compulsory lie detector tests and satellite tracking of sex offenders in Britain.
Guardian
9:30:31 AM 
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Friday, May 28, 2004 |
The government may keep watch over sex offenders released from prison by using satellite-tracking and lie detectors, under plans to be unveiled on Friday.
David Blunkett revealed the plans on Thursday, as a "key part" of law and order policy for a third Labour term.
Police and probation officers would track convicts given community sentences or released on licence.
BBC
8:20:18 AM
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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 |
Thousands of long-term prisoners could be freed on electronic tags under government plans to relax the rules of its early-release scheme.
Extending the home detention curfew to offenders serving sentences of four years or more will help to ease overcrowding in the 138 jails in England and Wales and would bring British prisoners into line with arrangements for foreigners.
Times
8:38:00 AM
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Thursday, May 20, 2004 |
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Monday, May 17, 2004 |
Just three years short of the term's official centenary, the Home Office is set to jettison "probation service" from the lexicon of law and order and has launched an urgent appeal to find a suitable replacement.
The decision to end a long and honourable usage in Britain's courts which dates back to the 1907 Probation of Offenders Act comes as a result of the merger of the prison and probation services into the new National Offender Management Service (Noms) from next month.
Guardian
9:08:50 AM
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Wednesday, May 12, 2004 |
A rally of over 1,000 probation staff from across Britain today heard MPs from all three main political parties condemn the government's proposals to merge the probation and prison services.
The rally in London, organised by probation and family court staff union Napo, was called to protest the formation of a new National Offenders Management Service (NOMS).
Guardian
8:33:05 AM
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Tuesday, May 11, 2004 |
Serious criminals could be left unsupervised and probation officers sacked because of a shake-up of the penal system, a union predicted last night.
More than 1,200 probation staff will demonstrate today against next month's merger of the prison and probation services. They will be backed at a Westminster rally by MPs of all parties.
Independent
8:52:39 AM
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Probation officers have been warned that unless they meet government targets the Home Office "will simply get someone else" to do the job, according to a leaked internal management paper passed to the Guardian.
London probation managers have told staff that they will face competition next April from private companies and voluntary organisations to carry out some work with offenders.
Guardian
8:49:30 AM
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© Copyright 2004 Nick Page.
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Updated: 1/6/04; 9:43:30 am.
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