Tory sleaze: The prisongate business
A story is about to break involving David Cameron, which questions his fitness to be the leader of the Tory Party and/or the next Prime Minister. Ian Duncan Smith, Dominic Grieve and Jonathan Aitken are all involved.
Jonathan Aitken In relation to David Cameron, at best he made a serious error of judgement. (Prisons Policy Paper - Prisons with a Purpose) This being the case, he is not fit for purpose. However, if he knew about the proposed taxpayer rip off then his dishonesty cannot be dismissed as a past indiscretion and his position becomes untenable. I would like to ask Cameron direct what does he know?
The Tory party is advocating a prison building programme as part of their election manifesto. It can be revealed that disgraced former Tory MP Jonathan Aitken is at the centre of this emerging scandal. The Tory party authorised Aitken's appointment to Chair the Prison Reform Policy Group, a member of which being Stuart Mitson, and Aitken's Report recommends the new prison building programme features the Mitson Academy Model prison "designed" by Stuart Mitson. The inverted commas are there for good reason. The plans for the Mitson Academy Model have been stolen from GSL Ltd (Group 4)...
"The three core recommendations of the report are:
* Localising the management of the prison system by abolishing the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) and replacing it with a network of Community Prison and Rehabilitation Trusts (CPRTs).
* Scrapping the Titan prison programme and reinvesting part of the budget to build five recommended new Mitson Academy model prisons.
* Revolutionising prison rehabilitation to reduce re-offending and its annual £12 billion cost".
More to follow
HMCIP Report on Rye Hill Prison when Stuart Mitson was Director.
Stuart Mitson Consulting Ltd.
LINK.
"New face at Rye Hill Prison
GSL welcomes Alan Bramley. Alan has joined the
company as the director of HM Prison Rye Hill
following Stuart Mitson’s transfer to operational
support manager.Alan has considerable experience
in prison management within both the public and
private sectors having been director of HM Prison
Lowden Grange and HM Prison Doncaster before
being promoted to operations director" (source Global News, Issue 4, Summer 2005).
It is not a simple transfer to go from Director to operational support manager. This is a demotion. Following this appointment, Stuart Mitson left the employ of GSL Ltd. It does not really matter whether it was a case of dismissal or resignation. He clearly was not up to the job. I would be interested to learn why the Tory party thought Stuart Mitson was the right man to advise the party on prison matters? How was he selected to sit as a member of the task force? A simple Google search would or should have ruled him out of the equation.
2 comments:
mitson had a shocking inspectorate report when he ran group 4s rye hill prison, with massive staff turnover and corruption. He has no place in the prison business. But what was erwin james doing being suckered into this piece of commercial self-promotion?
I have just added a link to that report. I agree. I told Erwin that I thought he was making a mistake. I think they needed him for image reasons. A cloak of respectability. Heads will roll.
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