http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=1257186
Simon McGee"In 1999/2000, 294 convicts, less than two per cent of the total, were brought to book for breaking the law after being sent home on the scheme. But the Home Office estimated this week that when the 2004/2005 figures are finally confirmed they will show that about 1,300 have re-offended, more than six per cent of all those on the programme, about the same rate for the previous year."
