[n4r9]

UK here, just looked it up and although it's not admissible as evidence in court, since 2021 it can be used as a requirement for release from prison for domestic abusers.

Bloody hell, that is scary.

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That is scary! Well, we've recently got a new prisons minister, this might actually motivate me to write to them about this.

[n4r9]

I looked them up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Timpson

Woah. It's actually the MD of Timpson, whom Starmer has parachuted into the role along with a peerage. So an unelected Minister, but apparently he's very into prison reform, so there's that.

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Indeed, Timpson's are a leading employer of people who have served their sentence:

> The company is well known for its policy of employing ex-convicts, who make up over 10% of its workforce