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Filling in the blanks: Uncovering confidential information regarding Scotland's prisoner escort
Author(s) -
Bird Sheila
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2005.00095.x
Subject(s) - confidentiality , prison , law , business , service (business) , work (physics) , criminology , political science , internet privacy , psychology , computer security , computer science , engineering , marketing , mechanical engineering
In November 2003 the Scottish Prison Service signed a contract with Reliance for the provision of prisoner escort and court custody services throughout Scotland. It soon came out that the performance targets and financial penalties in the contract were covered by confidentiality clauses. But Sheila Bird has carried out some statistical detective work to estimate the concealed financial penalties for a prisoner unlawfully at large and to show that Reliance has been in serious breach of a crucial monthly performance threshold.