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01 March 1999

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Prison Privatisation Report International No 27 (February) 1999. This issue contains a feature on an internal audit of the contract between Wackenhut (UK) Ltd and the Home Office covering the 15 months when the private company took over the industrial functions of HM Prison Coldingley. The unpublished report "discovered mismanagement, inappropriate accounting and unauthorised loans and payments to the company" and recommended pursuing Wackenhut for the recovery of hundreds of thousands of pounds. The Prison Service has launched an inquiry into whether criminal proceedings should be undertaken.

World prison population list, Roy Walmsley. Research Findings (Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate) No 88, 1998. Details the number of prisoners held in 180 countries and "dependent territories" and produces estimates of the "world prison population total."

Parliamentary debates

Persistent Juvenile Offenders Lords 24.3.99. cols. 1343-1381
Chelmsford Prison Commons 31.3.99. cols. 1063-1070

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