As audit predicts shortfall of 12 000 prison places in England’s prisons and Labour plans to end shorter sentences, why Scotland is better prepared

Prisoner reconviction rates plummet in last 17 years
Failing to tell us that the early prison release scheme in Scotland has already been a success as re-offending rate plummets
Daily Record and Herald try to con you into thinking that 37 mistaken early release prisoners might be in Scotland – none are
Prisoner release in Scotland – far fewer than England and no quick re-offending unlike in England
Prison population – back-to-front thinking from BBC Scotland to hide Scottish Government competence in maintaining 234 times more spare places
Scottish prisons have 14 times, per head, the spare capacity of those in England and Wales
After riots England to release 5 500 offenders in just two months, some violent, as SNP Scotland benefits from no riots, prison capacity and so no violent prisoner early release
England and Wales releasing prisoners early at nearly TWICE the rate of Scotland

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