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Call for Scotland's prison population to be reduced
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Evening News - Scotland
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July 1, 2008
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Report suggests jail be reserved only for most serious crimes
SCOTLAND'S prison population should be cut from 7700 to 5000,
with jail sentences reserved only for the most serious and dangerous
offenders, an independent report recommended today.
The Scottish Prison Commission, led by former First Minister
Henry McLeish, said imprisonment should be targeted and "paying
back" in the community should become the default position for
dealing with less serious offenders.
The report also argued for 16 and 17-year-old offenders to be
dealt with at specialist youth hearings and detained separately from
adult offenders.
And it recommended new "conditional" sentences - between a
community sentence ...
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