Chris Grayling’s privatisation of probation service ‘a disaster’

Public at greater risk from ex-offenders as study reveals more than a third of officers ‘cut corners’. The extent of Chris Grayling’s botched privatisation of the probation service is exposed by research which brands it an “unmitigated disaster” that left the public at greater risk from ex-offenders released from jail. Probation officers say bigger caseloads and unrealistic targets, ushered in when Grayling was the justice secretary, have meant that they are unable