Secret Squirrel's attention has been drawn to the intent of one Prime Minister of Britain, one certain David Cameron, who has announced intentions of passing a law such that PRIVATE PRISON OPERATORS, Owners of the private prisons, who fail to stop prisoners re-offending will be fined.Now knowingly, there may be more, this will affect G4S which has 6 prisons,Serco which has 5,and Sodexo Justice Services
which operates 3,there may be a few more, but a few, and they may have a few more prisons, a few more. The government has the rest which total at least and perhaps more than.....70 actually, as I believe ther are a total thence of 84 persons or more in sum toto.
So, the private operators are to be fined according to reoffences by THEIR inmates, no mention made of those reoffenders in government owned institutions which are paid for and operated by the government itself. Curious it all is, really isn't it then.
So looking at the figures,of total prisons, give or take, what is Cameron up to,actually, does he wish to put them out of business by fineing them out? It does seem so, look at the figure differences between the privately run, and the government owned.Doesn't mention the ,in all equality, in equity, fineing of government institutions.does it. And so too what will be the criteria, deciding on the fineing of said institutions? Well, let's look at the governments own figures what with the respect to,of and including, reoffending.
Now, quoted from, the government's own site,data and statistics on reoffending, found at
http://www.justice.gov.uk/statistics/reoffending/proven-re-offending
What do we see.......in the majority........of the massive amounts of governement oned,operated and run prisons, 70, versus the privately owned,run,owned,operated of..a collossal total of ..........14,therabouts, roundabouts..........let's look at the prison layabouts........
here quoted government figures.......
And we do here quoted,in the sum toto.....
In the 12 months ending September 2010, around 660,000 offenders were cautioned, convicted (excluding immediate custodial sentences) or released from custody. Around 170,000 of these offenders committed a proven re-offence within a year.
This gives a one-year proven re-offending rate of 26.5 per cent, which represents no change when compared to the previous 12 months and a fall of 1.3 percentage points since 2000.
These re-offenders committed an average of 2.85 re-offences each. In total, this represents around 500,000 re-offences of which 80.3 per cent were committed by adults and 19.7 per cent were committed by juveniles.
54.5 per cent (around 270,000) were committed by re-offenders with 11 or more previous offences.
0.7 per cent (around 3,200) were serious violent/sexual proven re-offences.
5.2 per cent (around 26,000) were committed by re-offenders on the Prolific and other Priority Offender Programme (PPO).
Key trends in re-offending
Adult offenders
Around 560,000 adult offenders were cautioned, convicted or released from custody between October 2009 and September 2010. Just under 140,000 of them committed a re-offence. This gives a proven re-offending rate of 25.1 per cent, which represents a slight fall of 0.1 percentage points compared to the previous 12 months and a fall of 1.1 percentage points since 2000.
However, compared to 2000, the offenders in October 2009 to September 2010 had characteristics which meant they were more likely to re-offend. This means that, after controlling for offender characteristics, the decrease was larger at 3.2 percentage points.
The average number of re-offences per re-offender was 2.85, a rise of 1.2 per cent compared to the previous 12 months and a fall of 16.1 per cent compared to 2000.
Looking at specific groups within the cohort:
The proven re-offending rate for those released from custody was 47.9 per cent, a rise of 0.6 percentage points compared to the previous 12 months and a fall of 1.5 percentage points since 2000. The average number of re-offences committed per re-offender for this group was 4.10, an increase of 1.6 per cent compared to the previous 12 months and down 12.3 per cent since 2000.
The proven re-offending rate for those starting a court order (Community Order or Suspended Sentence Order) was 34.0 per cent, down 0.8 percentage points compared to the previous 12 months and down 3.9 percentage points since 2000. The average number of re-offences per re-offender was 3.16, up 1.7 per cent compared to the previous 12 months and down 18.3 per cent since 2000.
The proven re-offending rate for drug-misusing offenders (all offenders who are given drug orders as part of their sentence or test positive for opiates upon arrest) was 57.3 per cent, up 2.3 percentage points compared to the previous 12 months.
Juvenile offenders
Around 100,000 juvenile offenders were cautioned, convicted or released from custody between October 2009 and September 2010. Around 34,000 of them committed a re-offence. This gives a proven re-offending rate of 34.8 per cent. This represents an increase in the rate of 2.2 percentage points compared to the previous 12 months and a rise of 1.1 percentage points since 2000.
However, users should be aware that the cohort has changed considerably over the period since 2000 and is 29.2 per cent smaller than in 2000 and is comprised of offenders whose characteristics mean they are more likely to re-offend than those in the 2000 cohort. In order to account for this, we can control for changes in offender characteristics to give a more consistent view of changes over time. After
controlling for these changes, the proven re-offending rate has actually decreased by 1.7 percentage points since 2000.
The average number of re-offences per re-offender was 2.85, an increase of 3.8 per cent compared to the previous 12 months and down 14.3 per cent since 2000.
Table E1: Overview – latest 12 month period compared to the previous 12 month period and 2000 proven-reoffending-jul09-jun10
Groups with the biggest changes in the proven re-offending rate since 2000
Biggest reductions:
Adult females (a fall of 2.3 percentage points).
21 to 24 year olds (a fall of 3.0 percentage points).
Adults with seven to 10 previous offences (a fall of 3.1 percentage points).
Juveniles with seven to 10 previous offences (a fall of 4.8 percentage points).
Adults who received Court Orders (a fall 3.9 percentage points).
Adults who received custodial sentences of one to four years (a fall of 7.1 percentage points).
Juveniles who received a custodial sentence (a fall of 6.8 percentage points).
Biggest increases:
45 to 49 year olds (a rise of 4.0 percentage points).
Adults who received custodial sentences of less than 12 months (a rise of 3.1 percentage points).
Juveniles who received a community penalty (a rise of 5.6 percentage points).
This quarterly bulletin presents the proportion of offenders who re-offend (proven re-offending rate) and the number of proven re-offences those offenders commit by age group, gender, ethnicity, criminal history and offence type. Also included are proven re-offending rates for serious proven re-offending, different types of offenders (e.g. adult, juvenile, drug-misusing and prolific and other priority offenders); different types of sentence; and by individual prison, probation trust and youth offending team.
Latest figures are provided with comparisons to the previous 12 months (October 2008 to September 2009) and the year 2000 in order to highlight long-term trends; 2000 is the earliest year for which re-offending data exists on a comparable basis.
The bulletin is produced and handled by the ministry's analytical professionals and production staff.
Pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons:
Ministry of Justice:
Secretary of State, Ministers of State, Permanent Secretary, Director General of Justice Policy Group, Deputy Director of Youth Justice
Policy, Director of Sentencing and Rehabilitation, Director General of Corporate Performance Group, Director of Analytical Services,
Director General of Transforming Justice, Head of National Operations Group, Head of Justice Statistics Analytical Services, Head of
Sentencing Policy and Penalties Unit, Head of Green Paper Consultation Response, Deputy Director of Reducing Reoffending Portfolio, Head
of National Operations Group (NOMS), Director General of National Offender Management Service (NOMS), Head of Public Protection Casework
Section (NOMS), Head of Offender Management and Public Protection Unit (NOMS), Head of Performance, Information and Analysis Group
(NOMS), Head of Research (YJB), and the relevant special advisers, analysts, policy officers and press officers.
Home Office:
Secretary of State, Ministers of State, Permanent Secretary, Programme Director of Crime and Policing Analysis Unit, Head of Reducing
Reoffending Unit, and relevant special advisers, analysts, policy officers and press officers.
No 10: Special adviser to the Prime Minister
Treasury: Ministry of Justice Finances and Strategy, Public Services Group
Updated: Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Ministry of Justice
Proven re-offending full report
And so too doth here end the fully quoted epistle.
So reoffending tops 70% in some prisons, and generally 47% of all adults,serving long sentences, reoffend within the year of release,and
for really SHORT sentences, hit 57%.
So....consider.now..........from
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9623655/New-fines-for-prisons-if-criminals-re-offend-after-release.html
again here quoted,and paraphrased for the true import of things..........
New fines for prisons if criminals re-offend after release
Owners of private prisons who fail to stop prisoners re-offending will be fined, under new plans to be announced by David Cameron.
By Christopher Hope, Senior Political Correspondent
Owners of private prisons who fail to stop prisoners re-offending will be fined, under new plans to be announced by David Cameron.
Under the slogan ‘Tough But Intelligent’, the Prime Minister will signal a tougher approach to law and order by declaring “retribution is not a dirty word”.
The speech is being billed as an attempt by Mr Cameron to bury finally his “hug a hoodie” message which he first unveiled in 2009.
It will also alarm criminal justice reformers, who were delighted by the previously softer approach toward prisons policy by former
Justice Secretary Ken Clarke.
Mr Cameron is expected to say that firms that run private prisons will only get their fee for running the jails if they help to cut reoffending.
Under a scheme that has been trialled in Doncaster prison, contractors such as G4S and Serco will only receive their full fee if reconviction rates fall with a year of release by five per cent.
And so too here ends the quoted epistle.
Interesting isn't it all, taken in the light of the governments own figures for the prisons in the sum toto, and yet ONLY the PRIVATELY OWNED prisons are targetted, not the government ones, which obviously in light of the stated and true GOVERNMENT figures can't possibly be met,really,certainly not by the government itself.Quite plainly we have inequality,inequity,inequity with respect to the PRIVATELY OWNED PRISONS, versus the GOVERNMENT OWNED AND OPERATED PRISONS, indeed the government ones which could quite plainly afford the regularly and most defiantely deserved fines for obviosu failures,figuratively speaking,since the government itself would be providing the limitless funds to pay such failure fines, versus the PRIVATELY OWNED ones, which obvsiouly wouldn't be able to meet the government requirement yolked upon them and so end, in eventual bankruptcy. Curious, why doesn't he Cameron government mericllessly offer to end them and buy them out rather than force them in to bankruptchy and so end their business operation in the private sector, versus the easily affordable government sector? Why indeed. Such has to be the intent of the Cameron government, he couldn't possibly be a complete and utterly ridiculous imbecile who could have sensed another modus operandi? Or mayhaps he could and di...n't?.
Clearly Cameron's "fines" are aimed at,without fail, at the very limited private sector, of the Prison operations, with the sole and exclusive intent to drive them out of business and bankrupt.....why then not just tell them and take over their operatiions, returning it all back in to the government fold? I find Cameron's idea of fineing the private sector with respect to prisons, a rather cruel business practice,an unfortuante business practice, and unfair busines practice,and quite simply an intent by the government to not only end, but actually bankrupt those in the private sector who unfortunately chose to enter the prison business in competition with the government,something which has obviously offended the government to such an extent that it has chosen this rather putrid route, that offineing them out of business, leaving only,THE GOVERNMENT, in the business field of criminal incarceration,THE PRISON SYSTEM.Sad and sorrystate of affairs it is Mr. Cameron, sad route you have chosen Mr. Cameron, and unfair route Mr. Camerocn, a route of inequity,inequity and inequality, a route exhibiting your nature Mr. Cameron, that of applying a system of ridiculous and unfair fines applied in such a way as to be impossible for the private sector to deal with, versus a governmental system of business practice which is,now,what with Cameron's law of fines with respect to privately run and owned prison firms, utterly impossible to compete with on a fair and level playing field, an indication of Cameron's thoughts,behaviours and practices with respect to the private sector versus the one he runs,and owns, the government sector.Squirrel is displeased with Cameron's intent,with Cameron's law,with Cameron's fines.All is not fine.
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