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Upheaval for prisons as privateer A4E walks away from contract
INMATES and staff are facing “upheaval and uncertainly” after profiteer Action for Employment (A4E) quit a London prison education contract, academics’ union UCU warned yesterday.
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling had expected A4E to deliver offender education at 12 London prisons until July 2015.
But the Tory was left scrabbling to replace the notorious profiteer yesterday in the wake of its jail break.
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