Clearsprings or clear as mud?
I have reservations about the private sector making money out of justice.
Daily Telegraph story here.
HMPS Instruction in relation to Clearsprings.
Clearsprings website.
A mixture of law, politics, autobiography and humour. Once described as "The Devilish Advocate" (Guardian), I do have the ability to provoke a response. Sometimes it comes from someone who uses a thought process, and sometimes from jerks usually associated with the knee.
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A couple of months ago I discovered that I had won a dubious prize in a highly unfortunately lottery; I now live next door to a ClearSprings bail hostel. Actually the Ministry of Justice informs me that I am not allowed to call it a hostel, and in two ways at least it is entirely correct to make the distinction. A bail hostel is staffed and subject to strict planning controls, whereas the doss-house next door is entirely unsupervised and was set up without entangling ClearSprings, an Essex property agency headed by a gaming entrepreneur, in any inconvenient red tape whatsoever. The Ministry of Justice refuses to admit that bailees who are housed in ClearSprings properties are highly likely to cause problems for their neighbours. In fact, the general tone of its correspondence seems to be that ClearSprings tenants are harmless, persecuted victims who have somehow become inadvertently entangled with the law. Probation officers have a rather different view. One blog by probation staff raises a very interesting issue. ClearSprings premises are intended for those who cannot be bailed because they do not have a suitable address. Why do they not have somewhere to live? Very possibly because their behaviour is so atrocious that no family member, friend or landlord is any longer willing to house them. These are the sort of people who will now be housed next to my family without any meaningful control whatsoever. Unfortunately it is likely that this situation will continue until one or other of the ClearSprings neighbours gets hurt. Then some idiot from the Ministry of Justice will no doubt be trotted out to say how sorry he/she is and how no one, in their wildest imaginings, could possibly have predicted such a terrible event.
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