Businessman to run prisons

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The government have appointed Mr Derek Lewis, a business man to run the prison service, which itself is to be privatised becoming the Prison Service Agency. Mr Lewis who took over on 1 January, is to continue to be the Chairman of UK Gold a satellite television service.

He will be the Director-General and Chief Executive of the new Agency. Mr Lewis previously worked for the Ford Motor Company, 1968-1982, and then Granada Television, 1984-1991. Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke commented: "I am sure Derek Lewis will give dynamic leadership to the new Prison Service Agency and to the reform of the prison service".

Home Office, press release 21.12.92.

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