Give prison officers bonuses to rehabilitate
Prison officers would be given cash bonuses to rehabilitate criminals and cut reoffending under new Tory proposals.
A major review of prisons’ policy for the Conservatives by Jonathan Aitken is proposing that prison and probation workers should be rewarded for reductions in the reoffending rates.
Repeat offenders are currently costing the taxpayer at least £12 billion a year, according to the review. Up to three quarters of young offenders, and two thirds of other prisoners, are convicted of a new offence within two years of leaving jail.