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Scottish Prisons Commission: re-thinking punishment

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"Scotland has one possible future where its prisons hold only serious offenders, prison staff regularly and expertly deliver programmes that can affect change and there is a widely used and respected system of community-based sentences. "There is another possible future, one in which there are many more prisons, as overcrowded as those today. Dedicated and skilled professionals lack support and suffer from low morale, the public's distrust of the criminal justice system reaches record levels and fragile communities are ignored. Scottish Prisons Commission Date: 1 Jul 2008 - 10:48 Source: Scottish Government The Scottish Prisons Commission (SPC) today published its report, Scotland's Choice, on the future of crime and punishment north of the border...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 01, 2008 (boomark / email).