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Campaign launched to renationalise probation services
A MAJOR campaign to bring probation services back into public ownership has been unveiled this week following evidence that privatisation has resulted in hundreds being killed by “low-risk” offenders.
Last week the Ministry of Justice admitted that “low-risk offenders” have killed 225 people while being monitored by probation contractors in the four years since privatisation.
By contrast, 142 people were killed by “high-risk offenders” over the same time period while they were being monitored by state-run probation services.
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