Tagging

[nailit]

Do we still have curfew tagging in the UK?
Havnt seen any court cases in my local rag for some time where this has been used.
Ta.

[Psybbo]

Not sure what you mean but a few years ago we had G4S demanding access but they were 600 numbers out!

[New Judge]

Yes a curfew requirement can be made under a Community Order or as a requirement of a suspended sentence order. The maximum curfew period is sixteen hours per day (though it is unusual to see a sentence involving more than 12 hours daily) and unless there are reasons not to, the method employed to ensure compliance is an electronic tagging device.

[steg]

I know a guy who had a tag last year at this time, I can't remember if it was 7 or 8 o'clock he had to be home for

[EDDIE51]

Also used for people on 'early release' from prison. They usually have to be home between 7pm and 7am.

[nailit]

Thanks for replies.
I was on a tag in 2002, got a 3 month prison sentence, served 4 weeks in prison, 2 weeks on a tag and the rest on liscense.
Just havnt seen any recent accounts of people getting tagged. Maybe its not as popular.
Thanks again.

[New Judge]

Yes, "Home Detention Curfew" Eddie.

Up to a quarter off (in addition to the automatic release after half the sentence having been served) for those sentenced to between three months and our years. The maximum remission is 90 days meaning the biggest beneficiaries are those sentenced to twelve months who normally serve just 90 days (less any time served on remand). Someone sentenced to two years serves nine months (90 days less than half their sentence).

[New Judge]

^^^^^^

...between three months and four years...

[ummmm]

The tag people are knobheads.....

[nailit]

//The tag people are knobheads.....//
I presume you mean the people that DO the tagging and not the recipients of the tag?
When I left prison in 2002 I was told to be home for 3pm and await the tagging company. This was on a Friday. So I got myself a bottle of vodka and coke (come on...just released from jail was celebrating;-) ) and waited. By 10 oclock nobody had turned up and I was what you would call drunk. So my girlfriend rang the prison that I had just been released from and was told that they would probably come out the following day. They didnt. It was sunday when they turned up. The irony that I was honest eneough to inform the authorites about my non tagging wasnt lost.

[nailit]

(typo) it was actually monday when they turned up not sunday^^

[ummmm]

The ones that check up on you. My cousin lived with me and was on tag. They'd turn up at 11 pm and make me wake him up which was a bit of a challenge.

[New Judge]

It's a hard life sometimes.