40,000 offenders will be tagged in sentencing law overhaul

Almost 40,000 offenders will be electronically monitored at any one time as part of a mass expansion of tagging technology that will be at the heart of sentencing law reforms. Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, is understood to have secured £700 million funding from Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, to buy nearly 30,000 more devices. This […]