Intermittent Custody scrapped from 20/11/06
06/11/2006
The Home Office has announced that Intermittent Custody Orders will be withdrawn on 20th November 2006.
Intermittent Custody Orders were launched in January 2004 for people who had committed an offence but were not judged high risk.
When they were not in prison, offenders were under the supervision of probation officers, either working, looking for a job or doing unpaid community work.
Director of the Prison Reform Trust Juliet Lyon said: "The lesson is clear - government must have the courage to promote and develop community sentences and court diversion schemes, rather than rushing to legislate with new fancy forms of incarceration."
> Read BBC coverage of the story : "Weekend prison" scheme scrapped (02/11/06)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6109886.stm
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Quick links
> About Intermittent Custody
http://www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk/adviceandsupport/prison_life/intermittentcustody/
