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Monday, 6th October 2008

Scottish prisons

Q&A: Richard Baker Scottish Labour's justice spokesman, Richard Baker, MSP, responds to reports Scotland's jails could house hundreds more inmates if so much staff time was not used to issue methadone.

Kenny MacAskill: Looking again at the role of the open prison estate I HAVE apologised to Robert Foye's victim in person for the shortcomings within our prison system that allowed him to put her though such a harrowing ordeal. We shouldn't lose sight of the full responsibility that Foye alone bears for this cr

Jail overcrowding could force mass release HUNDREDS of prisoners could be released from jail under emergency powers to deal with acute overcrowding, the head of the Scottish Prison Service warned yesterday.

Inspector slams rundown jail SCOTLAND'S chief inspector of prisons blasts the "dilapidated" state of the country's main jail for sex offenders in a highly critical new report.

Prisons chief issues warning over safety

Sheriff says this man should go to jail – but there's no room

Crackdown on the crimelords using mobile phones in prison

More children are locked up

MacAskill attacked over 'jobs for cons'

Minister says send convicts out to work

Why hard labour is no soft option for criminals

Call to link sentence guidelines to prison population

Family sues prison chiefs over inmate released to kill

Prisons designed for 6,600 inmates now hold 8,013 – 'and it won't stop here'

Five drug busts every day in prisons – and it's tip of the iceberg

Prisons need more sniffer dogs, says jail boss

Doors closed on the scandal of open prisons

Sheriff slams home curfews after violent inmate freed

The great Scottish prisons gamble

A worthy effort at fixing the prisons problem

Prison telephones 'too dear'

Sheriff: I can't protect public any more from criminals freed early

Prison training hailed a success

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