Re: Prisoner transport?

["Lee Williams" <grizz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Oops, I forgot to mention that most of the UK vehicles are not divided into
'cells' as Festus described the German ones are...

----- Original Message -----
From: Lee Williams <grizz@freeuk.com>
To: <millenniums-end-l@firedrake.org>
Sent: 14 February 2001 18:19
Subject: Re: Prisoner transport?


>
> > > iirc, securicor is a uniformed security business. is
> > > prisoner transport (regularly) done by private
> > > contractors in the uk?
> > >
>
> Yes it is, also the trucks are not usually armoured even when transporting
> VERY dangerous cases. I can also testify from personal experience (as a
> driver of similar vehicles) that they handle like pigs on roller blades.
>
> BTW one of the other companies in the private sector is UK Detention
> Services, who actually ran a prison near here until a couple of weeks ago
> when the place was forcibly taken over by HM Prison Service and the UKDS
> contract terminated...apparently their 'service' was not up to scratch.
>
> Lee.
>
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