ENGLAND AND WALES

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ENGLAND AND WALES

• Bunic Ana-Marija
• Krianac Anita

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NATIONAL OFFENDER MENAGMENT SERVICE (NOMS)
Her Majesty's Prison Service (HMPS)
National Probation Service (NPS)
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NATIONAL OFFENDER MENAGMENT SERVICE

• department of the Ministry of Justice responsible
  for the correctional services in England and
  Wales
• created on 1 June 2004, by combining parts of
  both of the headquarters of the National
  Probation Service and Her Majesty's Prison
  Service
• The two bodies remain distinct but have a strong
  unity of purpose to protect the public and
  reduce reoffending
• NOMS is responsible for commissioning and
  delivering adult offender management services, in
  custody and in the community
• The Director General of NOMS is Phil Wheatley
• (responsible for delivering reduced re-offending
  and public protection)

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• Responsibility for delivering a reduction in
  re-offending and the management of offenders is
  devolved to nine regional offices in England and
  one office in Wales
• The English regional offices are led by Regional
  Offender Managers.  The Wales office is led by a
  Director of Offender Management.
• These leaders are experts in the
  offending-related problems of their local area
  and are responsible for
• 1) commissioning services for their
  region
• 2) developing a regional reducing
  re-offending delivery plan
• 3) co-ordinating regional and local
  partnerships

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Her Majesty's Prison Service

• the United Kingdom Executive Agency tasked with
  managing most of the prisons within England and
  Wales
• AIMS
• 1) Holding prisoners securely
• 2) Reducing the risk of prisoners re-offending
• 3) Providing safe and well-ordered establishments
  in which we treat prisoners humanely, decently
  and lawfully
• The Prison Service does not manage all prisons
  within England and Wales (11 private prisons -
  managed by private companies)

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Prison categories

• Male adult prisoners
• Category A prisoners whose escape would be highly
  dangerous to the public or national security
• Category B prisoners who do not require maximum
  security, but for whom escape needs to be made
  very difficult
• Category C prisoners who cannot be trusted in
  open conditions but who are unlikely to try to
  escape
• Category D prisoners who can be trusted not to
  try to escape, and are given the privilege of an
  open prison.

• Female adult prisoners
• Category A is identical to that for men
• Closed is for people who are not trusted to not
  attempt to escape
• Semi-open was introduced in 2001 and is for those
  who are unlikely to try to escape
• Open is for those who can be trusted to stay
  within the prison

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Young offenders and juveniles

• Secure Training Centres
• Local Authority Secure Childrens Homes
• Juvenile Prisons
• Young Offender Institutions

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NATIONAL PROBATION SERVICE

• The National Probation Service for England and
  Wales is a statutory Criminal Justice Service
  which works with offenders either because they
  have just been released from prison or because
  they have received a community sentence
  (community rehabilitation order,drug treatment
  and testing order..)

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF PROBATION

• During the late nineteenth century volutary
  societies, led by Church of England Teperance
  Society, appointed missionaries to the London
  Police Courts to reclaim drunkards and later
  other offenders.
• 1907 supervision was given a statutory basis
  wich allowed courts to appoint and employ
  probation officers.Probation officers were
  formally empowered to work with offenders and to
  advise, assist and befriend offenders placed
  under supervison by court.Mayor development
  followed including the beginning of work with
  prisoners before and after release, civil court
  work and reparation in the form of community
  service.

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• In the 1970s and 1980s partnership with other
  agencies resulted in cautioning schemes,
  alternatives to custody ( day centers, special
  programme conditions )
• the probation order as a sentence and risk of
  custody and risk of reconviction assessment
  tools.
• 2001 The Criminal and Court Act re-named
  probation service as The National Probation
  Service for England and Wales
• replaced 54 probation committiees with 42 local
  probation boards
• established 100 funding for the probation
  service
• created the post of Director General
• made chief officers statutory office holders and
  members of local probation bord - appointed by
  Secretary of state.

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• in its current form, the NPS is part of the
  National Offender Management Service (NOMS)
  within the Ministry of Justice
• It consists of 42 probation areas which are
  coterminous with police force area boundaries
• Areas are funded by NOMS and they are accountable
  to their Boards and to NOMS via a Regional
  Offender Manager
• The work of probation areas is scrutinised by HM
  Inspectorate of Probation, which reports
  independently to UK Government Ministers.

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MINISTRY OF JUSTICE NATIONAL OFFENDER MENAGMENT
SERVICE The strategic commisong, coordination
and menagment of the prison and Probation system
NATIONAL PROBATION SERVICE The National
Director Is responsible for Performance and
development Of Probation
42 PROBATION AREAS Each board is responsible For
local delivery and Partnerships with key
justice Agencies.

• PROBATION STAFFING
• Probation officers 8,520
• Probation Service Officers 6,330
• Admin/Other Staff 5,640
• Managment Staff 890

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NPS aims

• Protecting the public
• Reducing re-offending
• The proper punishment of offenders in the
  community
• Ensuring offenders' awareness of the effects of
  crime on the victims of crime and the public
• Rehabilitation of offenders

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Offenders on probation

• Offenders are likely to be put on probation when
• - a judge or magistrate gives them a
  community sentence
• - the offender is automatically released
  from prison after serving half or two-thirds of
  their sentence
• - the Parole Board decides that the offender
  can be released early from a jail sentence
• - offenders on probation have to comply with
  the rules and requirements of their community
  sentence or their release licence from prison
• Additional requirements of probation can include
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  completing alcohol and drug treatment
• - staying
  in a probation hostel
• - staying
  away from the area where the crime was
  committed
• - a
  curfew, backed up be electronic tagging
• Some offenders are made to stay in probation
  hostels, known as Approved Premises ( much higher
  degree of supervision)

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The work of probation staff

• protect the public
• reduce the risk of an offender committing a
  further offence
• (under their supervision and afterwards )
• their work begins even before the offender is
  sentenced or released from prison
• keep contact with the offender and their family
• monitor the offender's movements while they are
  on probation
• supporting victims of crime

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• Each year the probation service commences the
  supervision of some 175,000 offenders.
• Caseload - excess of 200,000 (90 are male and
  10 are female)
• a quarter of offenders serving community
  sentences are aged 16-20 and just less than
  three-quarters are aged 21 and over.
• Approximately 70 of offenders supervised will be
  on community sentences, and 30 imprisoned with a
  period of statutory licence supervision in the
  community as an integral part of the sentence
• NPS assist magistrates and judges in their
  sentencing decisions

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New Reforms

• NOMS in 2004 changed the pattern of correctional
  services delivery
• The Offender Management Bill, introduced in
  Parliament late in 2006, was intended to enable
  some probation areas to become trusts as part of
  wider Government policy
• The Bill is completed July 2007, and the first
  six probation trusts came into being on 1 April
  2008 (Merseyside, South Wales, Humberside,
  Dyfed/Powys, West Mercia and Leicestershire
  Rutland).
• New Probation Trusts enjoy greater freedoms -
  they demonstrated that they were robust
  organisations capable of delivering to high
  standards of performance and efficiency.
• Trusts and continuing Boards alike will have a
  larger role in the local commissioning of
  services from the private, voluntary and
  community sectors,
• They all still have to deliver on their own
  contractual obligations to their Regional
  Offender Manager.

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