Long-term prisoner release process: consultation analysis

Footnotes

1 Long-term prisoner release process: consultation - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

2 Scottish Government consultations - Citizen Space

3 Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993 (legislation.gov.uk)

4 Prisoners (Control of Release) (Scotland) Act 2015 (legislation.gov.uk)

5 A total of 168 responses were submitted to the Citizen Space platform. Duplicate and blank responses were removed, resulting in 161 responses to include in the consultation analysis.

6 Prison-based social work thematic review.pdf (careinspectorate.com)

7 The previous position still applies to prisoners sentenced before that change took effect. This means that prisoners sentenced before 1 February 2016 are still released on non-parole licence after having served two-thirds of their sentence.

8 The Vision for Justice in Scotland - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

9 The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Requisite and Minimum Custodial Periods) Order 2024 (legislation.gov.uk)