Here is the relevant part of UK Prime Minister Cameron’s speech made on October 22, 2012 after he saw the intermediate data coming out of the Peterborough SIB pilot.
We’re going to pay people by the lives they turn around. Just think of what this means for the taxpayer.
When this Government came to power we were spending £40,000 a year (per person) just on banging people up. With payment by results, your money goes into what works: prisoners going straight, crime coming down, our country getting safer.
It’s such a good idea I want to put rocket boosters under it; indeed today I have an announcement to make.
By the end of 2015, I want to see payment by results spread right across rehabilitation. Of course, there will be some high-risk offenders for whom this is not appropriate but this approach should be the norm rather than the exception. And I want to see rehabilitation reach more of those who would benefit from it.
Link: http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/crime-and-justice-speech/
Michael Belinsky 