Prisoners Sent Home Early to Live On Benefits ; How You Ended Up Paying for Controversial Jail Release Scheme
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ABOUT 4,000 hardened Scots criminals have been let out of jail to serve their sentences in the comfort of their own homes, the Daily Mail has learned.
To help ease prison overcrowding, violent thugs, housebreakers and drug dealers are being fitted with electronic tags and allowed to swap their cells for their living rooms.See the full content of this document
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Prisoners Sent Home Early to Live On Benefits ; How You Ended Up Paying for Controversial Jail Release Scheme
And, adding to the huge costs of the scheme to taxpayers, criminals are even eligible to claim unemployment and incapacity benefits.
Yet it has been found that a quarter ...See the full content of this document
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