Sunday, April 24, 2005

Keep drug tests in our prisons / Scotsman, 24 Apr 2005

http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=427902005
"THE decision by the Scottish Prison Service, with the support of the Executive, to scrap compulsory drug tests in Scottish jails represents an extraordinary management failure.
The ostensible reason for this act of capitulation is that mandatory testing (introduced by Michael Forsyth) merely encourages prisoners to switch to heroin, which is more quickly cleared from the human system and so lowers the chances of being caught. "