Most do not get a custodial sentence, so the alternative of bail supervision should be the preferred option for those offenders.In his evidence to the justice committees on 4 November this year, Dr Andrew McLellan—to whose report Pauline McNeill and Margaret Smith have referred—highlighted one of his top priorities by saying that the Scottish Executive should "Stop overcrowding", and added:"Of the statistics that lie behind overcrowding, the report draws particular attention to the rapid...