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16.11.2022 - 17:53 / dailyrecord.co.uk
The number of inmates in Scottish prisons who have neither been tried or sentenced has reached a record level.
Official figures show that on an average day in the last 12 months a quarter of all prisoners in jail were on remand - double the number in March 2020.
Prison reform campaigners branded the figure a "scandal" while the Lib Dems said SNP ministers had allowed the justice system to effectively grind to a halt.
The average daily prisoner population for 2021-22 was 7,504 – up from 7,339 the previous year. But the average number of remand prisoners – those awaiting either trial or sentencing – increased by about 14 per cent from 1,634 in 2020-21 to 1,862.
Howard League Scotland, which campaigns for prison reform, said the country was "completely out of step" with the rest of the UK and Europe when it came to the use of remand.
Keith Brown, the justice secretary, said it was clear "more needs to be done to ensure use of custody is very much a last resort".
A Howard League Scotland spokeswoman told the Record: "The scandal of remand is not new.
"While shocking, these figures are not surprising and have repeatedly been brought to the Government's attention by Howard League Scotland, the Scottish Human Rights Commission, the Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland and others.
"Scotland is completely out of step with the rest of the United Kingdom and most of Europe in terms of our approach to remand.
"Proposed legislation may go some way to addressing this, but it's not going to solve the immediate problem of people being held for considerable periods of time without charge, in over-crowded conditions, with limited access to any purposeful activity.
"The majority of them won't go on to serve a prison sentence and will be
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