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Some Mitie bad news for the prisons
Despite Labour’s promises to bring things ‘in-house,’ the Justice Secretary has awarded notorious outsourcing outfit Mitie a £329 million contract to run a new prison — despite its track record of abuse and neglect in its migrant facilities, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
LOCKED-IN OUTSOURCING: Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood during the official opening of HMP Millsike in Yorkshire, to be run by the notorious outsourcing firm Mitie
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WHEN Keir Starmer brought Rachel Reeves back into the shadow cabinet, she promised Labour in government would launch “the biggest wave of insourcing of public services for a generation.”
But under Reeves and Starmer, the government is making things flow in the opposite direction, as ministers keep announcing more outsourcing.
So in March, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood claimed that “this government is fixing the broken prison system we inherited” as she announced the opening of HM Millsike, a new 1,400-bed jail in East Yorkshire. Millsike might be another prison, but it is also another piece of outsourcing: privatisation specialist Mitie has a 10-year, £329 million contract to run the jail.
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