Another failed privatisation: Private probation companies to have contracts ended early

A view of signage for the Ministry of Justice and the Crown Prosecution Service in Westminster, London.

The government has announced that another of its flagship policies on outsourcing have come unstuck. Privatising the probation service always looked like a privatisation too far. And now even the Conservative Government agrees.

This is a report from The Independent:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/probation-privatisation-failure-transforming-rehabilitation-enforcement-poor-crcs-monitoring-nps-a8201536.html

And from the Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jul/27/private-probation-companies-contracts-ended-early-justice”>Private probation companies to have contracts ended early