Number of remand prisoners in Scotland jumps despite plan to reduce jail population
dailyrecord.co.ukremand prisoners in Scotland’s jails has risen sharply over the last year by 22.4 per cent, accounting for an additional 367 prisoners.At the beginning of December untried and unsentenced prisoners accounted for around a quarter of Scotland’s entire prison population.But in that time there was a decline in the frequency of electronic tag orders being issued, with over a third of all orders in 2020 being issued in the first three months of the year.Labour said prisoners have been put at greater risk of contracting coronavirus and that the mental health of hundreds of remand prisoners has been jeopardised.MSP Rhoda Grant today called on justice secretary Humza Yousaf to do more to keep remand prisoners out of jail.She said: “With hundreds of.
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