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| Secure inmate plans for open prisons |
| By Evening Telegraph |
| Published: 09/22/2008 |
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SCOTLAND - Plans are being considered that would see more hardened inmates being moved to open prisons Castle Huntly and Noranside to ease Scotland’s record jail population. It means convicts nearing the end of their sentences at secure units such as Glasgow’s Barlinnie would begin moving to the open estate, which has about 170 spare places. The reason it’s running under capacity is due to a toughening of procedures surrounding transfer to the jails after the Robert Foye case — he raped a schoolgirl while on the run from Castle Huntly — and growing anger over the number of prisoners who abscond. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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