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The situation would be bad in any case, but is made worse by the fact that these are remand prisoners.The report says: "The drug free area situated on the top flat of ‘A' hall was, at the time of inspection, offering no therapeutic enhancement to the prisoners housed there."
It is at that point that legal aid leaps to the top of the agenda. It will reach the top of many people's agendas at some point in their lives, given that litigiousness is on the increase.
Although there was general agreement that there should be customer panels, there was some concern that their initial layout was too top-down. According to that structure, a convener would be appointed who would then appoint the panel members, other conveners and so on.
Experts on sex offending, such as Dr Marshall, regard Peterhead as one of the three top providers in the world for such treatment.Slopping out currently takes place in about one quarter of prisoner places in Scotland.
Your predecessor, Bill Rattray, commissioned a report from Professor Bill Marshall on the prison's work, in which the observation is made that Peterhead is one of the top three prisons of its type in the world.
Further recruitment is therefore in hand to top up the numbers that we require—not just to 8,000, which is the number that we definitely need, but to 8,000 plus a buffer of 10 per cent.
For instance, there are obvious questions about whether the commissioners and ombudsmen could buy into larger services to help them in their drive for efficiency.