We need a change of heart towards those who offend
Det Chief Supt John Carnochan and Prof Fergus McNeill (Letters, January 31) write eloquently and passionately about the need to rethink our penal policy, and the desperate need to rethink our attitudes to offenders and offending, as evidenced by most of the responses to the recent remarks of Scottish Prison Service chief executive Colin McConnell ("Call for inmates to have phones in cells", The Herald, January 30).
Det Chief Supt John Carnochan and Prof Fergus McNeill (Letters, January 31) write eloquently and passionately about the need to rethink our penal policy, and the desperate need to rethink our attitudes to offenders and offending, as evidenced by most of the responses to the recent remarks of Scottish Prison Service chief executive Colin McConnell (\"Call for inmates to have phones in cells\", The Herald, January 30).
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As a nation we need a change of heart towards those who offend, not as a "soft touch" Scotland but with greater understanding of what is needed to turn lives around.
Only when we are in the business of turning lives around will we see an end to the revolving door of re-offending which destroys so many lives, including those who are made victims of crime.
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We need a change of heart towards those who offend
Det Chief Supt John Carnochan and Prof Fergus McNeill (Letters, January 31) write eloquently and passionately about the need to rethink our penal policy, and the desperate need to rethink our attitudes to offenders and offending, as evidenced by most of the responses to the recent remarks of Scottish Prison Service chief executive Colin McConnell ("Call for inmates to have phones in cells", The Herald, January 30).
As a nation we need a change of heart towards those who offend, not as a "soft touch" Scotland but with greater understanding of what is needed to turn lives around.
Only when we are in the business of turning lives around will we see an end to the revolving door of re-offending which destroys so many lives, including those who are made victims of crime.
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