One minute it's complaints about prisoners walking free after only one-third of their sentences. Next it's furore over inmates being offered early release but choosing to remain locked up. The latter – 500 of them at the last count – prefer the "soft-touch comfort of Scotland's five-star luxury jails" rather than home detention with electronic tag and curfew.
Cell-block luxe
THERE is no pleasing hard-liners in the crime and punishment debate.
One minute it's complaints about prisoners walking free after only one-third of their sentences. Next it's furore over inmates being offered early release but choosing to remain locked up. The latter – 500 of them at the last count – prefer the "soft-touch comfort of Scotland's five-star luxury jails" rather than home detention with electronic tag and curfew.
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Don't show me this again.