Shared focus is key to cutting crime / Scotsman, 8 Mar 2005

http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=254072005
Bernadette Managhan
"Scotland's prisons are amongst the most over-crowded in Europe and six out of ten offenders are re-convicted within two years of leaving the prison gates.
These issues can be addressed in one of two ways: either we keep on building more prisons to house as many as 10,000 prisoners within the next decade - many of whom will be serving sentences of less than six months for minor offences - or we can look at a more joined-up approach, with a shared focus on reducing re-offending amongst all the agencies which deliver services for offenders. "