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Prison
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Let’s support prisoners to turn their lives around, not force them onto courses which don’t work
Domestic abuse
23 Mar 2021
Insight
Are video links causing the criminal justice system to slow down?
Digital justice
23 Jul 2020
Insight
Everyone admits short prison sentences are ineffective, so why do the courts still use them?
Judiciary
29 Apr 2018
Insight
The children of mothers in prison – how can we avoid the collateral damage?
Children
25 Jan 2018
Insight
The question is not why the Scottish prison population has fallen, but why it hasn’t fallen further
Prison
16 Dec 2017
Insight
Scotland – a far off land of which we know too little?
Government
24 Nov 2017
Insight
The blame game: who bears responsibility for the rise in the prison population?
Government
06 Oct 2017
Insight
The only way to reduce the prison population is to recognise that prison is a dead end
Government
15 Sep 2017
Insight
If we don’t know why the prison population is rising, we have little hope of halting the rise
Prison
26 Aug 2017
Insight
Why do we imprison mothers for crimes like tampering with an electricity meter?
Prison
11 Aug 2017
Insight
If we don’t know the impact of any programme, we shouldn’t keep on running it
Digital justice
02 Jul 2017
Insight
Are we imprisoning too many innocent people?
Prison
26 May 2017
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