如果我们不在他们离开监狱时给他们戴上脚环，那么我们很可能根本不会给他们戴脚环。”一位资深缓刑工作人员这样说。
摄影：Mark Richardson/Alamy 英国议员表示，尽管政府承诺实施“英国历史上最严格的监督”，但英格兰和威尔士地区提前释放的数百名囚犯——包括跟踪者和暴力犯罪者——并未被塞尔科公司（Serco）佩戴脚环。
‘If we do not tag them as they leave prison, there is a good chance that we won’t tag them at all,’ said one senior probation worker. Photograph: Mark Richardson/Alamy Hundreds of prisoners released early across England and Wales, including stalkers and violent offenders, are not being tagged by Serco, MPs have said, despite pledges for the “toughest supervision in British history”.
随着政府开始释放第二批650名罪犯以缓解监狱拥挤危机，警方和缓刑官员表示，他们正努力应对一批本应在社区中受到监控的罪犯的新增流入。
As the government begins to discharge a second tranche of 650 offenders to relieve the prison overcrowding crisis, police and probation officers have said that they are struggling to cope with a new influx of offenders who are supposed to be monitored in the community.
在周二下议院的紧急质询期间，资深工党议员、埃尔瑟姆和奇塞尔赫斯特选区的克里夫·埃福德质问为何外包公司塞尔科未能确保囚犯离开每所监狱时有足够的脚环。
Speaking during an urgent question in the Commons on Tuesday, Clive Efford, the veteran Labour MP for Eltham and Chislehurst, asked why the outsourcing company Serco had failed to ensure that there were enough tags for prisoners as they leave each prison.
“他们实际上没有履行合同。这根本不是技术公司能力范围之外的事情——给出狱人员戴脚环根本不是难事。那么这些公司打算怎么解决这个问题？”他说。
“They are not actually fulfilling their contracts. It can’t be beyond the tech firm’s ability to tag people on release. So what are these companies going to do about it?” he said.
影子司法大臣尼克·蒂莫西表示，尽管政府曾保证脚环系统将是“有史以来最严格的”，但大多数囚犯在释放前并未被戴上脚环。
The shadow justice secretary, Nick Timothy, said the majority of prisoners were not being tagged before release, despite assurances from the government that the tagging system would be the “toughest in history”.
“司法大臣曾告诉全国，将会建立适当的保障措施，前提是所有获释囚犯都将被戴脚环。他称这是历史上最严格的脚环监管制度，但那纯属胡说，”他说。
“The justice secretary told the country that proper safeguards would be put in place with a presumption that all released prisoners would be tagged. He called it the toughest tagging regime in history, but that was nonsense,” he said.
司法部长杰克·理查兹回应称：“我们正与塞尔科密切合作，自今年三月以来，我们已经看到其执行情况有所改善。虽然对每个人进行电子标记存在推定，但最终这是一个运营决策。”本月将有约2000名罪犯获释，其中包括家庭暴力施暴者和暴力犯罪者，另有3000人将在未来一年内分阶段获释。在安迪·伯纳姆的干预下，获释人数总计从6000人减少。因过失杀人罪被定罪的囚犯被排除在外，这意味着2019年在执勤中殉职的警官安德鲁·哈珀的凶手将不具备获释资格。
Jake Richards, the justice minister, replied: “We are working closely with Serco and have seen an improvement in the implementation since March this year. Although there is a presumption of every person being tagged, ultimately it is an operational decision.”About 2,000 criminals, including domestic abusers and violent offenders, are being freed this month, with another 3,000 to follow in stages over the next year. The total was reduced from 6,000 after an intervention by Andy Burnham Prisoners convicted of manslaughter are excluded, meaning the killers of PC Andrew Harper, who died in the line of duty in 2019, will not be eligible.
通常情况下，获释人员应预期在刑期的第二三分之一期间佩戴电子标签并接受其他监控条件。
Typically, those being released should expect to be electronically tagged and subject to other monitoring conditions for the second third of their sentence.
但缓刑服务工会纳波表示，这些释放正给其成员带来巨大压力，这些成员负责在社区中监管罪犯。
But the probation service union, Napo, said the releases were putting enormous strain on its members, who monitor offenders in the community.
该工会周二举行了预投票会议，讨论因薪酬和工作量而采取罢工行动的问题。薪酬谈判早在十月就以“最佳和最终”有条件的薪酬方案结束，该方案价值5%，但被工会谈判委员会拒绝。成员将被要求在正式的工业行动投票中就薪酬问题投票，同时就工作量问题进行投票，该投票将于10月19日启动。
The union held a pre-ballot meeting on Tuesday on taking strike action over pay and workloads. Pay negotiations ended earlier in October with a “best and final” conditional pay offer worth 5%, which the union’s negotiating committee rejected. Members will be asked to vote for industrial action on pay, along with a question on workloads, in a formal ballot on industrial action to launch on 19 October.
该工会表示，自2022年起，随着数万名囚犯开始提前释放，缓刑官被要求承担大量额外工作。
The union says probation officers have been required to take on large amounts of extra work since tens of thousands of prisoners began being released early from 2022.
一位来自监狱和缓刑服务的高级消息人士称，未能在释放罪犯离开监狱时为其佩戴标签，可能导致他们需要等长达一个月才能被标记。“如果我们在他们离开监狱时不为其佩戴标签，那么在他们再次犯罪之前为其佩戴标签的可能性就很低，”他们表示。
A senior Prison and Probation Service source said a failure to place tags on released offenders as they left prison meant that it could then be up to a month before they were tagged. “If we do not tag them as they leave prison, there is a good chance that we won’t tag them at all before they reoffend,” they said.
伦敦警察厅局长马克·罗利爵士表示，许多违反电子脚镜条款的人——例如饮酒或吸毒，或违反宵禁——即使被逮捕也不会面临制裁。“我们看到，被我们逮捕的电子脚镜违规者中，95%以上只是被保释回到社区，继续执行原来的条件。所以根本没有制裁，”他说。
Sir Mark Rowley, the Met Commissioner, said many of those who breached the terms of their tags – by consuming alcohol or drugs, or by breaching a curfew, for example – were not facing sanctions if arrested. “We’re seeing 95%-plus of the tagging breaches that we arrest are simply being bailed back into the community on the same condition. So there is zero sanction,” he said.
过去三个月，英格兰和威尔士的囚犯人数增加了超过1,700人。根据司法部数据，周一的囚犯总数为87,499人，而6月29日为85,761人，上升了2%。
The number of people in prison has jumped by more than 1,700 in the past three months. The prison population in England and Wales was at 87,499 on Monday, according to Ministry of Justice data, up from 85,761 on 29 June, a rise of 2%.
司法大臣亚历克斯·诺里斯表示，获释罪犯将接受“英国历史上最严格的监管”。为控制最高危险性的性犯罪和暴力犯罪者的行动而设立的新限制区，旨在将获释囚犯限制在几英里宽的范围内，以安抚受害者。
Alex Norris, the justice secretary, has said that released offenders will be monitored under the“toughest supervision in British history” New restriction zones designed to control the movements of the highest-risk sexual and violent offenders should confine released prisoners to areas a few miles wide, in an effort to reassure their victims.
然而，本月受害者专员克莱尔·瓦克斯曼表示，政府对该计划的信心“尚未得到实际情况的验证”。塞尔科已被联系以请求置评。
However, this month the victims’ commissioner, Claire Waxman, said the government’s confidence in the plan was “not yet matched by the reality on the ground”. Serco has been approached for comment.