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MoJ wastes £98m on tagging
National Audit Office report heavily critical of ongoing electronic monitoring problems.
8th June 2022
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National Audit Office report heavily critical of ongoing electronic monitoring problems.
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Electronic monitoring is an accepted and important component within the criminal justice system but its use is insufficiently regulated allowing it be applied unfairly.
Advocates of tagging typically advanced the cost effectiveness argument where they compare the cost of tagging – according to the Reform report somewhere between £8 to £16 per day for the new GPS tags – with the average cost of the prison place of approximately £73.
