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Privatisation: Trade unions defy shady probation and prisons sell-off with one voice
Trade unions draw line on privatisation of the justice system as TUC exposes plan to sell most-profitable 70% of probation services
Unions united yesterday against the coalition’s plans to sell off the justice system to the highest bidder.
New TUC research exposed the Con-Dem coalition’s plans to hand the most profitable 70 per cent of probation work and an ever-increasing number of prisoners over to shady private firms.
Already one in six inmates are held in privately run prisons, and with fewer staff combined with increasing overcrowding unions warn that the prison system is in meltdown.
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