facing people being held in young offender institutions.
BBC Reporting Scotland in their BBC Breakfast inserts, today, repeatedly. What are the risks of? Suicide.
What is the evidence? Two suicides in 2018.
‘Urgent action‘ still required after 8 years? No, the full BBC Scotland website report does not feature the word ‘urgent‘ at all. The Reporting Scotland Down editor has agreed that for effect – misrepresentation.
What does the full BBC Scotland online report head off with?
Inspectors find partial progress after young inmate suicides at Polmont – A follow-up inspection of a young offenders institution, ordered after the suicides of two young inmates, has found some progress but also room for improvement.
and:
A follow-up inspection, carried out last August by HM Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland, working jointly with Health Improvement Scotland, found that “dedicated staff” had worked hard to implement these recommendations.
But the report found that despite their efforts, they often faced systemic obstacles such as a lack of resources and staff shortages.
The physical and mental health needs of young people were now being checked on arrival, but sometimes new inmates arrived too late and had to wait until the following day for a full assessment, the report found.
How serious is understaffing? From the 2024/2025 report:
Issues around staffing levels were raised by officers during the year. Whilst staffing levels are not at the problematic levels of some other prisons, the SPS should consider whether the staff profile provides the support required to the female and young offender populations.
How does staffing compare in Scotland with England?
The ratio of prison officers to prisoners (often expressed as prisoners per officer or officers per prisoner) differs between England (part of the England and Wales system under HMPPS) and Scotland (under the Scottish Prison Service).A direct comparison from a recent analysis (shared by former prison service leader Phil Wheatley) puts the figures as follows:
England and Wales: Approximately 4.01 prisoners per prison officer.
Scotland: Approximately 2.62 prisoners per prison officer.
Prisoner staffing in Scotland is thus 53% higher!
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That will be another compalint submission to BBC Scotland then.
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