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Petition by David Wemyss

Petition by David Wemyss, on behalf of Aberdeen Prison Visiting Committee, calling on the Scottish parliament to urge the Scottish Government to consider whether large prisons remote from prisoners’ families offer the best way of rehabilitating offenders or whether, as an alternative, localised community prisons should be supported much more strongly to maintain genuinely easy access to family links and other community virtues.
On behalf of: Aberdeen Prison Visiting Committee
Number of signatures: 33	Date lodged: 7 May 2008
Summary: Written Submissions for PE1150 10 June 2008 : The Committee agreed to seek responses to the issues raised in the petition from the Scottish Government, Scottish Prisons Commission, Scottish Prison Service, Families Outside, Action for Prisoners’ Families, Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People, Sacro, Aberdeen Community Health Partnership, Association of Directors of Social Work, Grampian Police, Aberdeen City Council and Aberdeenshire Council. Link to Official Report 10 June 2008
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