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UK: Prison reform charity Nacro joins bid to run jails

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Prison reform charity Nacro joins bid to run jails Group drops scepticism over privatisation to tender alongside security firm * Rachel Stevenson and agencies * guardian.co.uk, * Tuesday September 02 2008 12:16 BST A charity that works with offenders and campaigns for prison reform is forming part of a bid to run prisons in London and Merseyside. Nacro has teamed up with the private security firm G4S, a drugs charity and a construction company on a proposal to operate and provide services to Maghull prison in Merseyside and Belmarsh West prison in south-east London. The charity's chief executive, Paul Cavadino, said Nacro's role in the consortium would be to oversee rehabilitation and resettlement services in the prisons. "The best way of ensuring they are being run properly is to be involved in planning this from the start," he said...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 02, 2008 (boomark / email).