Up to 22,000 more offenders and defendants tagged each year as part of the Government’s Plan for Change

£100m extra investment and new expectation all prisoners will be tagged when leaving jail

Sentencing Bill will also end automatic release for badly behaved offenders

Tens of thousands more criminals will be tagged and monitored over the next three years as part of the Government’s Plan for Change to make streets safer.

It is the biggest expansion of tagging since the adoption of curfew tags in 1999 with an extra £100 million being invested into electronic monitoring – an increase of 30%.

The Government is also introducing, for the first time, a presumption that all prison leavers will be tagged on release as part of intensive supervision with the Probation Service keeping a closer e

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