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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.
With the agitated debate now raging in the media about the early release schemes, Prison Officers Association general secretary STEVE GILLAN gives the view of those who work in the sector
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