Blow for Snp's Soft Touch Prison Plans ; Councils Say They Cannot Afford Macaskill Scheme [Scot Region]

Daily Mail › September 28, 2009

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SNP plans to spare violent thugs, thieves and sex offenders jail have been dealt a blow by council bosses, who called them 'unworkable'.

Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill's scheme to ease the pressure on Scotland's prisons would see all custodial sentences of less than six months scrapped in favour of community service orders.

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Blow for Snp's Soft Touch Prison Plans ; Councils Say They Cannot Afford Macaskill Scheme [Scot Region]

But the policy has been left in tatters after cash-strapped council bosses told him the...

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