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The future of life behind bars

The McLeish commission has painted a radical vision of who should � and should not � go to jail. Douglas Fraser outlines the report�s main findings

Does jail work? It is a simple question, to which the Scottish Government's prisons commission yesterday delivered a simple answer: no.

Putting people behind bars puts dangerous people off the streets and punishes them, they found.