+ charity Stonewall. Insiders said the appointment to HM Prison and Probation Service( HMPPS

Tagged criminals could not be tracked in real time after ministers wasted nearly ￡100 million on a Capita project that did not work, a watchdog has found. The National Audit Office( NAO), the public spending body, said that the Government wasted ￡98 million on the project with Capita that was designed to modernise tagging ready for its planned expansion as an alternative to prison. However, it left probation officers without the “ real time ” maps to track offenders’ movements, data that was lim

The Government expects the number of children in custody in England and Wales to more than double by September 2024, according to a new report, while the opening of a new secure school has been delayed by three years.A report from the National Audit Office( NAO) finds that while the average number of children in custody fell by 73% between 2010-11 and 2020-21, court recovery from the pandemic – alongside the impact of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, and Government plans to recruit

Transgender women in female prisons increases the risk of sexual assault but rules about where they are housed do not need to change, a judge has said.A female prisoner brought a legal challenge against the Ministry of Justice( MoJ) for allowinginmates to serve their sentence in a prison that corresponds with their gender identity. Lawyers representing the woman, named only as FDJ, argued that placing transgender women with a history of sexual violence in female prisons put other inmates at risk

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