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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

Domestic abusers leaving prison to wear electronic tags in pilot scheme

Prisoner walking along a prison corridor
The conditions will be enforced on up to 500 prison leavers who will be forced to wear a GPS or curfew tag. Photograph: Mark Harvey/Alamy

Domestic abusers leaving prison will have to wear electronic monitoring tags in a move that the government says will offer better protection to victims.

Under a pilot scheme launching in the east and West Midlands, and expected to be rolled out across England and Wales next year, any offender who poses a threat to a former partner or their children will be banned from going within a certain distance of a victim’s home and/or subject to a curfew.

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