From this week offenders carrying out community sentences must wear high-visibility jackets branded with the ‘community payback’ logo. Justice secretary Jack Straw (pictured, left, with home secretary Jacqui Smith, right) said: ‘The taxpayer has an absolute right to know what unpaid work is being done to pay back to them for the wrongs the offender has committed.’ Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, said: ‘We hope that no one is harmed as a result of this medieval justice.’