<P> G4S - run Medway managers received performance - related pay awards in April 2016, despite the chief inspector of prisons weeks saying weeks earlier that "managerial oversight failed to protect young people from harm at the jail ." In January, Panorama showed an undercover reporter working as a guard at the Medway secure training centre (STC) in Kent . The film showed children allegedly being mistreated and claimed that staff falsified records of violent incidents . No senior managers were disciplined or dismissed . Prior to the Panorama programme's broadcast, the Youth Justice Board (YJB), which oversees youth custody in England, stopped placing children in Medway . In February, a Guardian investigation revealed that, in 2003, whistleblowers had warned G4S, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and the YJB that staff were mistreating detained children . Their letter, forwarded by Prof John Pitts, a youth justice expert, was ignored . When the prisons inspectorate carried out a snap inspection at Medway it found detainees reported staff had used insulting, aggressive or racist language toward them and felt unsafe in facility portions not covered by closed circuit TV . Reviewers agreed to the legitimacy of evidence presented by Panorama showing, "...targeted bullying of vulnerable boys," by employees, and that, "A larger group of staff must have been aware of unacceptable practice but did not challenge or report this behaviour ." </P> <P> In an earlier Ofsted report on Medway, inspectors said staff and middle managers reported feeling a lack of leadership and having "low, or no confidence in senior managers ." Nick Hardwick, at the time the chief inspector of prisons said, "Managerial oversight failed to protect young people from harm . Effective oversight is key to creating a positive culture that prevents poor practice happening and ensuring it is reported when it does ." The Guardian newspaper learned that senior managers at Medway received performance - related pay awards in April amounting to between 10 - 25% of their annual salaries, according to seniority . One 15 - year - old girl placed at Medway in 2009 said she was frequently unlawfully restrained over 18 months, citing an occasion in which her face was repeatedly slammed into icy ground . "I assumed the senior management team would be sacked...But now it looks like they have been rewarded for allowing children to be abused in prison," she said . Former Labour MP Sally Keeble has complained about G4S maltreatment in STC's for over ten years, stating: "This is people making personal profit out of tragedy . I hope that justice minister Liz Truss would intervene and make sure these bonuses are not being paid by a Ministry of Justice contractor ." Notwithstanding the results of the investigations no senior managers at Medway were disciplined or dismissed . In May, the MoJ said the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) would take over the running of Medway . In July, it formally assumed control of the STC . In February 2016, G4S had announced that it was to sell its children's services business, including the contract to manage two secure training centres . The company hoped to complete the process by the end of 2016 . </P> <P> Following release of an extremely critical report regarding a G4S - operated jail, the Labour party's shadow justice secretary said they would be inclined to take control of for - profit prisons if the industry competitors had not met deadlines imposed upon them . Sadiq Khan's response stressed the need for better contracting, to include liquidated damages provisions . The chief inspector of prisons Nick Hardwick, recommended the crafting of a takeover contingency plan . "It's not delivering what the public should expect of the millions being paid to G4S to run it ." Khan said, "I see no difference whether the underperformance is in the public, private or voluntary sector...We shouldn't tolerate mediocrity in the running of our prisons ." Khan continued: "We can't go on with scandal after scandal, where the public's money is being squandered and the quality of what's delivered isn't up to scratch . The government is too reliant on a cosy group of big companies . The public are rightly getting fed up to the back teeth of big companies making huge profits out of the taxpayer, which smacks to them of rewards for failure ." </P> <P> The process of privatization of prisons in France is presenting from the major events from 1987 to the present by a French Scholar France has chosen a semi-private system . It consists of delegating the so - called non-sovereign missions (kitchen, laundry, maintenance) to companies and leaving the guard and security to the State . Organizing inmate work in prison workshops is one of the tasks that has been delegated to the prison management companies . Prison is a space of forced confinement where the overriding concern is security . The fact is that at several levels, and depending on type of prison (high security or not), production logic clashes with security logic . Structural limitations of production in a prison can restrict private companies' profit - taking capacities . On the basis of a field study conducted in 2004 and 2005 in five prisons chosen by prison and management type, Guilbaud show that the intensity of the tension between production and security, and the various ways this tension arises and is handled, vary by type of prison (short - stay, for convicts awaiting sentence, or relatively long - stay for sentence - serving inmates) and type of management . The production / security tension seems better integrated in public - sector prisons than in those managed by the private sector in the sense that it produces fewer conflicts in them . This result runs counter to the widespread understanding that shaped the 1987 reform, the idea that introducing private enterprise and the professionalism associated with it into prisons would improve inmate employment and prison operation . </P>

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