By: Eric McGraw
Budget cuts of £65 million will mean "safety, security and decency will be thrown out of the window": Paul Tidball, President of the Prison Governors’ Association, told the annual PGA Conference
The performance of Her Majesty’s Prison Service jails will inevitably decline as a result of reduced funding while the performance of the privately run jails - some of them a lot more expensive and consistently less safe than HMPS prisons - can ‘sail on merrily with 100% of their funding maintained and assured’. Not exactly a level playing field, Paul Tidball told delegates. The proposed cuts were ‘foolhardy’ and would only result in impoverished regimes becoming less effective in reducing re-offending.
