Prison Officers: Pension Age
Debate between Jo Stevens and Lord Hanson of Flint(5 years, 2 months ago)
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Gordon Henderson
I will just give my second reason, which is that allowing private companies to make a profit out of the incarceration of human beings is simply immoral.
David Hanson (in the Chair)
Before the hon. Lady’s intervention, I remind hon. Members that the debate is tightly focused on the pension age of prison officers, and I hope that interventions and contributions will focus just on that.
Jo Stevens
Thank you, Mr Hanson; I will do a quick swerve. On the point about private prisons and the influence of private companies, does the hon. Gentleman agree that privatising probation—the state’s care for people on probation—was the wrong thing to do?