And he plans to get out of the softer business-to-business contracts whose prospects were damaged by controversies in Serco's penal services.
Others include the state intelligence agency, the Bureau for National Investigation (BNI) and related agencies; judicial and penal services, that is, the Ghana Prisons Service and Judiciary Service; cabinet//Parliament; private sector and; civil society (including traditional authority and NGOs).
Thornton, the penal service spokesperson, said the confiscated documents were returned unread.
The many projects within the police, prosecution and penal service to address women's concerns are to be welcomed.
The penal service recognises that the remote location of its correctional colonies is a problem; its most recent solution is to suggest that prisoners talk with their loved ones by Skype.
It sets standards for education, health care, social services and penal laws, and establishes the right of children to have a say in decisions that affect them.
More important, perhaps, progressives to a large degree achieved their economic and social objectives among them, strict regulation of intrastate railroads and public utilities, legislation to prevent child labour and to protect women workers, penal reform, expanded charitable services to the poor, and accident insurance systems to provide compensation to workers and their families.
For example, in California the sentence is supposed to include a minimum of 36 months probation, a conduct order with stay away provisions, a minimum of $400 USD fine, mandatory attendance of a re-education program, and a requirement to perform community service (California Penal Code §1203.097).
Frances Crook, director of the Howard League for Penal Reform, says many public services believe they are doing the right thing economically as well as socially by placing contracts with prisons, but often prisoners derive little real benefit.
The best analogy is to liken the penal system to the health service.
The punishment for this ranged from branding and whipping to conscription into the military services and transportation to penal colonies.
