Scottish Government is failing to cut prison population, says top inspector

22/04/2015michaelTarget to reduce numbers locked up missed by thousands SCOTLAND’S jails remain over populated and too often fail to rehabilitate prisoners, according to the chief inspector for prisons in Scotland, David Strang. Strang claimed that the system was being used as a “welfare support system” with over 7,500 people in Scottish jails despite a 2008 […]