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January 13, 2005: Management of Offenders and Sentencing: Probation
Response
Responding to the publication of the
Management of Offenders and Sentencing Bill, Harry Fletcher, Assistant
General Secretary of Napo, the Probation
Union, gave an unambiguous analysis of the Bill's potential impact:
"The purpose of the National Offender Management Service,
which is established in today's Bill, is to dismantle the Probation Service
and introduce privatisation in order to drive down costs. This will be done
through reducing the terms and conditions of staff. This is unlikely to reduce
re-offending and, indeed, could actually lead to an increase in crime, because
quantity not quality will become the main principle. However, attempts to
match fines to income and to force courts to take into account jail capacity
could reduce the use of custody, but the dismantled Probation Service, which
will be weaker and cheaper, would not be in a position to cope."
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