GPS offender tagging farce tied to privatised probation

The Commons public accounts committee report on the Ministry of Justice’s electronic monitoring fiasco is still not the full story (New tags for offenders ‘waste of money’ - MPs, 24 January).Notwithstanding the ministry’s secretive approach, plans for the mass expansion of GPS tracking, the absence of an evidence base, and the futility of developing a bespoke “super tag” were all discernible in 2014, and it is unclear why no one was able to halt such a misguid