Britain plans for rise in the use of electronic tagging

Guardian
September 30, 2011

Ministers are preparing for a massive expansion in electronic tagging of offenders, with private security companies being invited to bid for more than £1billion worth of contracts next month.

The use of electronic tagging has grown rapidly since it was first used in 1999 by courts in England and Wales to enforce curfews. Now more than 20,000 offenders are monitored by private security firms on any given day.

The current eight-year contracts, which are held by G4S and Serco electronic monitoring services, are due to end shortly. The Ministry of Justice says more than 30 companies have expressed an interest in competing for the new contracts when bids are invited this October.

Fewer than 3,500 electronic tagging orders were made in 1999, a figure that rose to cover more than 70,000 people last year. It is estimated that more than 450,000 people in England and Wales have spent time electronically tagged over the past decade.

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  3. I sincerely believe that turning over our prisons to “for profit” private companies is skidding down a slippery precipitous slope. While I do think that electronic monitoring of non-violent offenders is much more appealing than tossing such people into the barbaric prison system, it is also open to many kinds of abuse. Just like the private juvinile facilities here in the US which gave kick-backs to judges for sentencing children to incarceration in the very lucrative private facilities for crimes as serious as talking back to a teacher, or posting an uncomplimentary blog about school administrators online; I fear that soon every single stupid little thing will become a violation of the “law”. We will eventually notice that most of our friends and family are sporting shiney new ankle bracelets.

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