Failure to fit tags left 5,000 offenders unmonitored in England and Wales, report finds

Summary

In first half of this year 1,600 tags also had no signal for over two weeks, highlighting scale of probation crisis More than 5,000 offenders went unmonitored in the first half of the year because electronic tags were not installed, while 1,600 tags had no signal for more than two weeks due to faults, a report has found. The Institute for Government (IfG) has revealed the full scale of the crisis in the probation system in England and Wales, concluding that “rationing probation supervision” due to a lack of staff meant sentences imposed by the court had become “essentially a fiction” for most offenders. Continue reading...

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