Mr Smith reads that nearly two thirds of Scottish prisoners end up being convicted of a further offence within two years of being released from their sentences.
Mr Smith notes that Cabinet Secretary for Justice, Kenny MacAskill MSP, is fond of banging on about what he thinks are the three causes of crime in Scotland: drinks, drugs and deprivation, the three D's as he refers to them. It would appear that he is totally discounting the effect of the fourth factor which is prison itself and which coincidentally happens to be the one out of all of these issues that the Scottish Government has the most direct control over.
It seems to Mr Smith the the SNP Government should be making prison work better so that it stops being the revolving door which it has become for so many of our fellow Scots, even if they do have criminal tendencies.
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