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    More than 500 prisoners to be released early in Scotland due to 'overcrowding'
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    More than 500 prisoners to be released early in Scotland due to ‘overcrowding’

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    1. No_Adhesiveness_1233 on

      This is an utter disgrace. If there is prison overcrowding obviously you want to build more prison capacity, but the short term solution is to allow prisons to be overcrowded, not to let criminals out. There is no situation ever where the comfort of criminals should supersede the safety of law abiding citizens.

      >Scotland’s Justice Secretary Angela Constance (above) said: “Emergency early release has become necessary to ensure the safety and wellbeing of Scottish Prison Service staff and those in their care as a result of the rapid rise in the prison population, creating an unprecedented situation.

      Hire more guards then, and allow them to use greater force in dealing with prisoners with less oversight when they do. None of this is complex, the reasons given are always spurious and demand that we act as if we are somehow required to act in line with a set of moral presuppositions which a majority of the population has always rejected.

    2. ParticularAd4371 on

      tbf, what were they in there for? If its just petty drug offences, 500 people is really nothing. But if its 500 seriously dangerous people, murderers, rapists etc, its more concerning.

      “Prisoners who are serving a life sentence and those on the Sex Offenders Register will not be eligible and exclusions also apply to prisoners subject to non-harassment orders or who have an unspent conviction for domestic abuse.”

      That makes it sound like it’ll be mostly petty crime based offences.

    3. Aggravating_Usual983 on

      The last Gov report showed the cost to the UK of reoffending was around 18 billion a year.

      The same statistics put the cost of housing a prisoner each year somewhere around 50k.

      In the UK currently we have 95k people in prison.

      Let’s say we invest 10 of that lost 18 billion into increased prison capacity. That would house an additional 200k people. We could literally triple our prison population and still be saving money. This whole economic benefit of releasing people is a myth.

      People have this fairy tinted view that everyone can be reformed, they can’t. It’s not uncommon for prolific offenders to have anywhere from 100-300 convictions. Releasing them does nothing but bring more misery into their local communities because it is a certainty they will reoffend.

      The whole myth around increased punishment isn’t a deterrent argument falls apart as well when scrutinised. How many of you would walk down the streets in the UK and smoke a joint? – Not worried about it right.. – Now how many of you would do the same in Singapore or Dubai? – Not so willing to are you, why? – Because you are shit scared of the consequences there, don’t nobody want to go to a Dubai Jail.

      This country really needs to start investing in some fuck around and find out laws.