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‘Security firms defend charging for tagging prisoners and dead people, citing amount of criminals and Jimmy Savile’

One piece of jewellery Savile never owned

One piece of jewellery Savile never owned

Two security firms accused of charging tax-payers to tag people who have gone abroad, are in prison or who have died, have hit back saying that they were just keeping an eye on the most dangerous in society.

A spokesman for G4S, one of the companies involved, said “we have actually done a lot of research into the type of person we should be tagging and far from conning the government, we have actually been doing them a favour. For example, did you know that in prison, 100% of the inmates have a criminal record?
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