一名家庭暴力幸存者遭前任伴侣拳打脚踢、持刀威胁、踹开家门，如今因对方出狱数周后仍未佩戴电子定位手环，正“生活在恐惧之中”。
A domestic violence survivor who was punched, threatened with a knife and had her front door kicked in by her former partner is "living in terror" because he has still not been fitted with a tracking tag, weeks after his release from prison.
现年38岁的米歇尔（化名）与四个孩子住在一辆固定式拖挂房车里，她说亲戚们睡在她地板上，以防那名男子再次袭击。此前，该男子曾因多次违反缓刑条件被召回监狱。
Michelle, 38, who now lives in a static caravan with her four children, said relatives were sleeping on her floor in case the man tried to attack again. He had been recalled to prison on several occasions before for breaching his probation conditions.
“警方和缓刑部门都知道他对我构成威胁，且以前违反过缓刑条件。他们似乎在等着我或孩子遭遇真正严重的事情，才肯伸出援手，”她说。
"The police and probation know that he is a threat to me and has breached the terms of his probation before. It is as if they are waiting for something really bad to happen to me or my children before they help," she said.
米歇尔是数百名要求知情的家暴幸存者之一，她们质疑为何罪犯出狱时不给佩戴手环。目前，私营企业Serco获合同负责在罪犯获释后为其安装手环。
Michelle is among hundreds of domestic violence survivors demanding to know why tags are not being fitted on offenders as they leave prison. Instead, the private-sector firm Serco is being contracted to fit them after they have been released.
“他们一出来就该戴上手环，”米歇尔说，“谁知道暴力分子会去哪、会干什么？手环应该在狱中安装好，再让他们走出大门。”根据缓刑和监狱首席视察官周四发布的一份报告，近一半罪犯出狱时未能“及时”佩戴手环，十分之一的案例中，安装手环甚至拖延长达五个月。
"They should be tagged as soon as they come out," Michelle said. "Who knows where violent people are going to go and what they are going to do? Tags should be fitted in prison before they walk out the door." Nearly half of offenders are not tagged "promptly" on release and in one in 10 cases a device is fitted up to five months later, according to a report released on Thursday by the chief inspectors for probation and prisons.
狱警工会POA已致函司法大臣亚历克斯·诺里斯，建议对会员进行培训，使其能在狱内为罪犯安装手环。
The prison officers' union, POA, has written to the justice secretary, Alex Norris, suggesting members should be trained to fit tags in prison.
米歇尔称，2024年初，她首次被前任伴侣——一名吸食裂解可卡因者、也是她三岁儿子的生父——拳击面部。她报警，对方被捕并获保释。
Michelle said she was first punched in the face by her former partner, a crack cocaine user and the father of her three-year-old boy, in early 2024. She called the police, and he was arrested and bailed.
第二天，他回到了她当时租住的五居室私人住宅，踹开门并用刀威胁她，她说。“我16岁的儿子不得不介入，把他从我身上拖开，因为他抓着我的头发把我按倒，挥舞着刀。我前任伴侣确信我卧室里有别的男人，”她说。
The following day, he returned to her then five-bedroom, privately rented home, kicked in the door and threatened her with a knife, she said. "My 16-year-old son had to intervene to drag him off me after he held me down by my hair and waved a knife around. My ex-partner was convinced I had another man in my bedroom," she said.
他因两项殴打袭击罪和一项斗殴罪被判有罪，于2024年11月被判处38个月监禁。2025年2月获释时，他被命令远离米歇尔的住所及她居住的城镇。
He was convicted of two counts of assault by beating and one count of affray, and sentenced to 38 months in November 2024. On release in February 2025, he was ordered to stay away from Michelle's home and the town where she lives.
他在2025年7月以及今年4月和8月违反了缓刑条款：他和朋友上传的照片显示，他在被禁止进入的城镇的聚会和酒吧中出现。
He breached the terms of his probation in July 2025 and April and August this year: photos he and his friends uploaded showed him at parties and pubs in towns from which he was barred.
米歇尔举报了其中两次违规，导致该男子两次被召回监狱，每次56天。10月15日，他获释，米歇尔的警方联络官向她保证，会给他安装GPS电子脚环以追踪其行踪。
Michelle reported two of these breaches, resulting in the man being recalled to prison for 56 days on both occasions. On 15 October, he was released, with Michelle's police liaison officer reassuring her that a GPS tag would be fitted to keep track of his movements.
但至今未安装电子脚环，导致米歇尔“生活在恐惧中”，担心他可能袭击她的家、现年18岁的儿子，或试图绑架那个三岁的孩子。
But no tag has been fitted, leaving Michelle "living in terror" that he could attack her home, her now 18-year-old son, or attempt to abduct the three-year-old.
米歇尔说，遵循市政部门的建议，她被迫离开五居室的租房，搬进了一辆拖挂式房车。
Michelle said she was forced to leave her five-bedroom rented house and move into a caravan, following council advice.
“警方知道他以前违反过缓刑条款，知道他有暴力倾向。他能直接被释放回当地，行踪却不受监控，这真的很不公平。我们不得不彻底改变生活。我几乎不让孩子们出门，担心他会在夜间袭击，”她说。
"The police know that he has breached the terms of his probation before, they know that he is violent. It is really unfair that he can be released straight into the local area and his movements are not monitored. We have had to completely change our lives.
自由民主党米德多塞特和北普尔选区议员维基·斯莱德周一在议会提出了米歇尔的案例，质询为何有孩子的家暴幸存者没有得到更多保护。“我们仍在不给罪犯安装电子脚环就从监狱释放他们，这简直疯了，”她说。
I hardly let my children out and I am worried that he could attack at night," she said. Vikki Slade, the Liberal Democrat MP for Mid Dorset and North Poole, raised Michelle's case in parliament on Monday, demanding to know why domestic violence survivors with children were not being given more protection. "The fact that we are still releasing people without a tag from prisons is utterly crazy," she said.
监察机构本周发布的报告披露，电子监控承包商 Serco 被认定已达成绩效目标，理由是其“尝试安装”监控设备，而非真正安装并确保设备正常运行。
The watchdog's report released this week disclosed that Serco, the tagging contractor, had been deemed to have met its performance targets by attempting to fit the devices, rather than actually fitting them and ensuring they worked.
报告指出，监控装置未能安装的主要原因之一是：承包商上门时，犯罪分子不在约定地址。这一原因占社区中 5000 名未佩戴电子脚环罪犯的三分之一。
It said that one of the main reasons for tags not being fitted was that the offender was not at an agreed address when contractors arrived. This accounted for a third of the 5,000 criminals in the community without tags.
本月，监狱工会（POA）全国主席马克·费尔赫斯特（Mark Fairhurst）在致诺里斯（Norris）的信中提议，政府应培训狱警在囚犯获释前为其安装并激活电子脚环。
In a letter to Norris this month, Mark Fairhurst, the national chair of the POA, proposed that the government train prison officers to fit and activate electronic tags before prisoners are freed.
他写道：“考虑到有据可查的绩效问题、公众保护的重要性，以及经验丰富的公共部门劳动力的可用性，有充分理由对内包（insourcing）进行正式评估。”
"Given the documented performance issues, the importance of public protection and the availability of an experienced public sector workforce, there is a compelling case for a formal assessment of insourcing," he wrote.
司法部表示：“我们接手的是一个因十年投资不足而陷入危机的司法系统，但正在做出必要的艰难决定来修复它。这包括有史以来最大规模的电子监控扩张，以及在更多罪犯走出监狱大门前给他们佩戴电子脚环。”
The Ministry of Justice said: "We inherited a justice system in crisis after a decade of underinvestment but are taking the tough decisions needed to fix it. This includes the biggest ever expansion of electronic monitoring and tagging more offenders before they leave the prison gates."
Serco 发言人称，公司会尝试为每一名被要求佩戴装置的人安装电子监控设备。“如果无法安装装置，或当事人违反释放条件，我们会向相关部门报告，由他们负责考虑并采取进一步行动。”该发言人说。
A Serco spokesperson said the firm attempted to fit an electronic monitoring device to every person required to wear one. "Where it is not possible to fit a device, or where the person breaches the conditions of their release, the individual is reported to the relevant authorities, who are responsible for considering and taking any further action," they said.