Nearly 250 fewer in Scotland’s prisons after 18 years free of Con/Labour control

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Professor John Robertson OBA

In 2024, a Council of Europe SPACE-I collection occurred on the 1st January and shows that Scotland continued to have one of the highest prison population rates in western Europe. On that date there were 140.5 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants in Scotland. On this occasion, while in Northern Ireland it remained far lower at 94.2 per 100,000 inhabitants, the prison population rate in England & Wales was slightly higher than that in Scotland at 145.0 per 100,000.1

‘Slightly higher?’ Once more, even among highly trained professionals, an inability to understand what small ratio differences in big populations can really mean for those from whom the data are collected.

A difference of 4.5 per 100 000 has to be multiplied by how many 100 000s there are in Scotland’s population of 5.5 million – 55. So, Scotland has 247.5 fewer in prison than it would have had the Cons and Labour been managing its prisons these last 18 years.

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