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That will not put off the folk with whom we are dealing. We may need to consider imprisonment as an option for people who are not prepared to be responsible.
The judges gave the person 15 years as the punishment part of the sentence, but the Scottish Prison Service has told us that he may have to serve only 11 years.I wrote to Lord Brodie, who wrote back to me.
We should look at what we can do to encourage allied professionals to have a greater and more proactive role in the community. That may be a shift that the cabinet secretary could, in line with integration, look at in more depth.