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UK justice system has blind spot
Scottish Daily Express
|March 29, 2025
BRITAIN has the highest prison population in Western Europe. Almost 160 men and women per 100,000 of the population in England and Wales; a bit less in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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The numbers have been rising remorselessly for decades. It's one reason our jails are bursting at the seams (the other being a chronic failure to match those real-life figures with new prisons).
And yet debate about the length of sentences for the most serious crimes - almost always crimes of extreme violence - is growing.
This week we were reminded of the case of Tina Nash. What Tina, below, went through at the hands of her abusive partner in 2011 beggars belief.
This story is from the March 29, 2025 edition of Scottish Daily Express.
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