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Burglars, thieves, 'flotsam and jetsam' to be spared jail
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THOUSANDS of criminals, including thieves, housebreakers, vandals
and fine-defaulters, will be spared prison sentences under radical
plans announced yesterday by the new Scottish Executive.
Kenny MacAskill, the justice secretary, said he wanted to adopt a
more liberal approach to penal policy.
Prison, he said, should be reserved for "serious offenders", not
the "flotsam and jetsam" of society that, he claimed, was clogging up
the nation's prisons unnecessarily. Of the 7,000 prisoners in
Scotland today, most are in jail for sentences of six months or less.
Mr MacAskill believes many of these ...
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