Serco has promised to right any wrong doings with its prisoner escort services after a government investigation showed that a number of staff were recording prisoners as being delivered to court when they had not in order to meet ‘performance measures’ that are stipulated in the contract.

The Justice Ministry will be overseeing the contract and has advised Serco to take certain steps to heighten their training and audit procedures.

This latest scandal could eliminate them from future government contracts which would be a substantial knock with Serco getting roughly 45 percent of its revenue from UK public sector contracts and approximately 25% of that from the government.

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