Probation will be renationalised after disastrous Grayling reforms

Supervision of offenders in the community to be undertaken by the state, reversing shake-up

The supervision of all offenders in the community is to be undertaken by the state in a major renationalisation of the probation sector, just five years after Chris Grayling introduced a widely derided programme of privatisation while justice secretary.

Under his disastrous shake-up in 2014, the probation sector was separated into a public sector organisation managing high-risk criminals and 21 private companies responsible for the supervision of 150,000 low- to medium-risk offenders.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2VCNbkS