Petition Legislate to keep all UK prisons and policing in the public sector

The Government should legislate to keep all prisons and policing in the public sector. This should reverse any current arrangements for contracting-out of prison and policing services, and ban any similar arrangements in the future.

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In America, the prison industry benefits financially from the prison population increasing. This is not an approach we want to see in the UK.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

18 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 18 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

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Date closed 18 February 2021
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