Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Softly, softly: retraining prison officers to lose hardline image / The Herald, 3 Dec 2005

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/53564.html
Lucy Adams
"Prison officers, who are ordinarily uniformed and only deployed within prisons, will be drafted in to help with troublemakers in the community as part of the government campaign to tackle reoffending in Scotland.
An expert panel commissioned by the Scottish Executive is looking at different, tailor-made programmes for car thieves, young offenders and female offenders to tackle their behaviour either in prison or in the community"