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Unions united yesterday against the coalition’s plans to sell off the justice system to the highest bidder.
New TUC research exposed the Con-Dem coalition’s plans to hand the most profitable 70 per cent of probation work and an ever-increasing number of prisoners over to shady private firms.
Already one in six inmates are held in privately run prisons, and with fewer staff combined with increasing overcrowding unions warn that the prison system is in meltdown.
Our members face serious violence, crumbling workplaces and exposure to dangerous drugs — it is outrageous we still cannot legally use our industrial muscle to fight back and defend ourselves, writes STEVE GILLAN
IAN LAWRENCE welcomes the government sentencing review but warns past experience shows such words rarely translate into meaningful action
MARK FAIRHURST highlights the main issues facing officers in a long neglected service, and raised by front-line delegates at POA conference last week, including understaffing, violence, bullying and the ongoing denial of workers’ right to strike