Editorial: Ministers have not learned the lessons of their ideological obsession with making profits out of offenders
Probation services are intended to help those who have fallen foul of the law. They ought to change the lives of some of the most marginalised people in our communities. That the government thought it possible to make a profit for shareholders from this process seems beyond satire. Yet the joke was on the voters.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
WL Webb obituaryGuardian journalist and literary editor with a lifelong commitment to leftwing politics, choral singing and nuclear disarmament
Read more »
The Guardian view on abortion: protecting a human right | EditorialEditorial: Cruel laws risk lives and harm women around the world. Attempts to extend them must be resisted
Read more »
The Guardian view on US-China trade wars: don’t start them | EditorialEditorial: The time has come to rewrite the rules so that the world’s largest economies are able to trade peacefully
Read more »
The Guardian view on private jails: flaws in the system | EditorialEditorial: English and Welsh prisons are disastrously overcrowded, and new research suggests privatisation may be making a bad situation worse
Read more »
The Guardian view on prosecuting war crimes: no one is above the law | EditorialEditorial: The new defence secretary ought to understand that the rule of law can only be upheld by observing it
Read more »
The Guardian view on GP shortages: a symptom that won’t go away | EditorialEditorial: The government’s plan to boost family doctor numbers has failed. And no wonder, when the health and care system is under so much strain
Read more »
The Guardian’s view on free speech online: a messy compromise | EditorialEditorial: Rightwing extremists are now being deprived of their income stream from YouTube advertisements. Not to do so would be worse
Read more »
The Observer view on the European elections and Nigel Farage’s malign message | Observer editorialNeither of the major parties has done enough to challenge the leader of the Brexit party
Read more »
Government renationalises supervision of criminals in major U-turn after Chris Grayling's probation 'failure'Government has already spent £467m cancelling contracts and bailing out companies
Read more »
Probation services to be brought back under public controlThe move comes after a part-privatisation introduced by Chris Grayling in 2014 was heavily criticised by MPs and watchdogs.
Read more »
Probation service will take years to recover from Chris Grayling’s privatisation fiasco | LettersLetters: For probation to provide the range and quality of services it once did will be a major undertaking, writes Mike Worthington; Grayling was told in no uncertain terms by Napo that his reforms were destined to fail, says Pat Waterman
Read more »