According to the evidence that the committee took, the costs of that and of implementing the other measures in the bill could be around £250 million.The evidence of many of our expert and informative witnesses from the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, the Scottish Consortium on Crime and Criminal Justice, academics, the criminal justice authorities and many more suggested that if there was a willingness to spend that kind of money, there were far more effective ways of reducing reoffending and better serving the public.Sacro, which I notice has contacted MSPs...