Monday, January 30, 2006

Tagged criminals shun curfews and run amok / Sunday Times , 29 Jan 2006

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2014723,00.html
Daniel Foggo
"TAGGED criminals convicted of assault and burglary are breaking their home curfews unhindered, in some cases illegally staying out for hundreds of hours.Flaws in the tagging system, created in its current form in 1999 to reduce Britain�s prison population, have been exposed in the internal records of a monitoring centre run by Group 4 Securicor. The company is responsible for overseeing most of the 11,000 tagged offenders. "