Some amongst us, of course, may have known of this for a while (if so, I’m not amongst the ‘in crowd’), but this sort of thing was bound to happen at some stage:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/mar/01/prison-governor-locks-out-probation-staff
It’ll be interesting to see how things pan out, but as The Guardian’s article says, the “decision means that all probation work inside the three prisons has been suspended, jeopardising rehabilitation work with the 2,000 inmates including the preparation of parole dossiers.”
Either way, not good news for those currently in the prisons affected and preparing for release or wanting to work with probation staff.
Steve
Discovering Desistance 