" class="left_link">» Text HereYesterday Parliament debated the Executive’s Criminal Justice Plan to the following motion:
“S2M-2736: Supporting Safer, Stronger Communities: Reform of Scotland’s Criminal Justice Services—That the Parliament believes that building safer, stronger communities is vital for Scotland’s well-being and future success; supports the reform package set out in the Criminal Justice Plan to promote the swifter delivery of sentences that are effective in reducing reoffending and supporting rehabilitation; recognises that violence, particularly knife crime, damages the daily life of already disadvantaged communities, and believes that co-ordinated action to tackle violence and knife crime must be stepped up in communities across Scotland. ”
There is no media coverage of the debate this morning.
Scottish Parliament Official Report 28.4.05: Debate on criminal justice services
Supporting Safer Stronger Communities: Scotland’s Criminal Justice Plan
Posted by MM on Fri 29th Apr 2005 at 7:39 am“MSP in call for ‘Mark’s Law’” Daily Record
“MSP in bid to protect kids from perverts” Evening Times 27.4.05
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Scottish Parliament Official Report 28.4.05: Managing Sex Offenders
“Tagged terror suspect sent back to jail” Guardian
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CjScotland 18.3.05: Control orders under Terrorism Act 2005 to be secret
“If you know your history, then you also know that sectarianism is wrong” Daily Record 29.4.05
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Corrymeela Peace and Reconciliation Centre
“Charity launches refuge for young runaways” Herald
“First refuge for runaway children opens ” Scotsman
“Secret haven for young runaways ” BBC
Following posted on 28.4.05
“Experts back first ever refuge for young runaways” Evening Times
“Refuge for runaways opens in Glasgow ” Scottish TV
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Aberlour. No specific link at time of posting.
“Shell fined £900,000 over platform deaths ” Courier
“Record fine for Shell over deaths of workers” Scotsman
“Shell fined £900,000 over deaths” BBC
“Oil company fined almost £1 million” Scottish TV
“Children’s tsar tackles drug problem with kibbutz plan” Herald
“Kibbutz ideal seen as safe refuge from drugs scourge” Herald
“Hitting at the heart of poverty” Herald
“Shock finding in small firms crime survey” Courier
Press release
““Reporting crime will achieve nothing” say a third of small firms” Federation of Small Businesses
“Help free women from a life of crime” Evening News. Article by Dr Alison Elliot, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
See also
Scottish Parliament: debate on women offenders 13.4.05.
CjScotland: Links to material about women offenders
Update
“Scandal of kids caged with cons” Daily Record
“Inspector hits out as five kids kept in adult jail” Evening Times
“Prison chief attacks detention of children at private jail” Herald
“Children ‘must no longer go to jail’ ” Scotsman
“Policy of holding children at Kilmarnock Prison criticised” Scottish TV
Following posted on 26.4.05
“Report due on under-fire prison” BBC
Following posted on 25.4.05
“Chief inspector urged to resign over prison report” Sunday Herald
“Calls for prisons chief to quit over report” Scotsman
Press release
“Kilmarnock Prison report” Scot. Exec.
“Kilmarnock Prison comes under fire” Serco
See also
HM Inspector of Prisons: Report on HM Prison Kilmarnock: January 2005