TAG... I'M IT

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- BY SOPHIE HUSKISSON

MINISTERS have unveiled the biggest expansion of tagging in British history, with thousands of extra domestic abusers, thieves and burglars to be tracked in real time.

Under a £700million probation service plan, everyone released from prison will be put on a tag from the end of the year, and more people on community sentences will be tagged.

I tried out a GPS ankle tag that tracks an offender's location and experienced two clear emotions while wearing it - shame and accountability.

Embarrassment flooded over me as I passed MPs in the corridors of Parliament and travelled on the Tube to a pal's party.

My thoughts spun as I wondered if people were questioning what I had done.