They accuse the private sector of poaching high-quality Prison Service officers to manage them and

They accuse the private sector of poaching high-quality Prison Service officers to manage them, and of recruiting inexperienced and poorly paid staff to fill the more junior posts.The National Audit Office has highlighted the high turnover of staff in private jails and has expressed fears that inmates are suffering high numbers of assaults as a result.Enver Solomon, a spokesman for the Prison Reform Trust, said: “The private sector is the Government’s chosen option for prisons. A Home Office spokesman said last night: “The Government is not interested in using the private sector for its own sake, whether in prisons or the community. Some of the most vulnerable children are being failed by the criminal justice system, ministers have been warned. But it is driven by business interests and maximising profits. We want the most effective custodial and community sentences, no matter who delivers them. But experience has shown that competition leads to improvements.”The Premier Custodial Group, which runs Hassockfield through its Medomsley Training Services subsidiary, is the largest provider in the market, operating four adult prisons. Group 4 runs three prisons and two secure training centres, and UK Detention Services, with three prisons, also has a strong presence.The first private jail was built 12 years ago at The Wolds, East Yorkshire, to shake the state sector out of its complacency.

It has proved to be a trailblazer and now private prisons hold about 7 per cent of the nation’s inmates – the highest proportion of any country in the West.Supporters of privatisation, which includes the Treasury, believe the institutions produce high-quality regimes which are also cost-effective – with savings of up to 15 per cent – and help to drive up standards.But critics counter that it is morally wrong to introduce the market into penal policy. The concept of privately run prisons originated in the United States and Australia, but has been adopted in this country with an almost evangelic enthusiasm by Tory and Labour home secretaries. Among them are two that also hold young offenders, Ashfield in Bristol and Parc in South Wales, which was criticised yesterday for its poor healthcare facilities for juveniles.All the evidence suggests that the Government is thinking private – not only for building and running training centres and jails, but also for prison escorts and operating immigration detention centres. She was convinced he was trying to back out of something and implied he was lying before declaring he was trying to make her choose “between her job and her baby”.The hearing continues.. In June she wrote to six big banks at Canary Wharf, east London, looking for temporary work Only three replied, with rejections.

She booked an interview to get a jobseeker’s allowance after her attempts to find work failed. She was suffering stress, panic attacks and plunging confidence. Money was running out and her marriage was under strain.Ms Winship told the tribunal in central London: “They [the Jobcentre] told me something that shocked me, which I still cannot get over. I was to delete the line that I had a child on my CV as it could be a cause of not getting work This really upset me. I am so proud of my daughter and yet she could be stopping me from getting work so I have now deleted her existence from my CV.”Last month Ms Winship began receiving a £56 a week jobseeker’s allowance which will continue until January.Ms Winship, from the Isle of Dogs, east London, is alleging sex discrimination and unfair dismissal against Goldenberg, Hehmeyer, which denies her claim.She went on maternity leave in April last year and gave birth two weeks later. Christopher, who has previous convictions for drugs offences and shoplifting, was arrested at the same time but released.A neighbour of the couple, who asked not to be named, said: “It is outrageous that they have been jailed for so long.”It looks like their son wanted them to look after the drugs because he knew the police would be keeping an eye on him.”He used to come round and have furious rows with them He must have leant on them and made them co-operate. A woman was told to remove a reference to her daughter from her CV to improve her chances of finding a job in the City, an employment tribunal was told yesterday.
Diane Winship, 35, was told during a Jobcentre interview that her 16-month-old daughter Gabriella was ruining her employment chances.Ms Winship was sacked as a £70,000-a-year financial controller with the US fund management firm Goldenberg, Hehmeyer & Co in September last year.

The album, produced by Mick Jones, the guitarist with The Clash, includes many of Mr Doherty’s co-compositions.. “The fact that I’m obviously well enough to be playing, in fine fettle and fine singing voice, yet I am not playing with the Libertines, is a sore point,” he complained.The singer-songwriter has unsuccessfully attempted to beat his addiction problems by attending the Priory clinic in London and then a rehabilitation centre run by monks in Thamkrabok, Thailand.As Doherty has struggled to hold his life together, the Libertines have been performing at the Fuji rock festival in Japan and are on the verge of releasing their second album, The Libertines. After performances in Bristol and Shrewsbury, he returned to London on Friday to play a well-received hour-long set at the Barfly in Camden in recompense for a no-show at the same venue on the previous Monday night.Doherty was interviewed by The Independent in Bristol last Thursday when, despite having a rasping cough, he claimed to be in good shape. He had been all right last week and played a couple of gigs but was in the studio yesterday and had to end the session early because he was beginning to feel ill. He said he couldn’t sleep and felt worse this morning, but had been 100 per cent determined to come to court for his appearance this morning.”Magistrates agreed to extend Mr Doherty’s bail and ordered him to appear at the same court on 17 August.After drawing criticism for failing to turn up for sold-out concerts in London on consecutive nights at the start of last week, Doherty had launched himself into a UK solo tour with a renewed vigour. He hoped it would be just a 24-hour thing but when he woke up he was too ill to come to court. But Frank Brazell, for Mr Doherty, told the court that his client, who is charged with possession of a concealed weapon, was unable to attend the hearing due to poor health.”He is not well, I have spoken to a friend of his who tells me that he is unwell,” he said.