The goal of the Scottish Prison Service is to realize the significance of rehabilitation where it is committed to “encourage prisoners to take opportunities which will reduce the likelihood they re-offend and help reintegrate them back into their community” (Graham 2). Other key goals for the country of Scotland 's correctional system is to keep those offended in custody, according to the court’s decision and maintain good order in each prison. The goal that stands out most prominently is the final goal listed. It says, “to care for prisoners with humanity” (Graham 2). Within the country of Scotland, there is a total of sixteen custody institutions. They all differ in size capacity. Some of the larger establishments can hold up to one-thousand
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Solemn cases are presented for the most serious crimes and cases. This can include, but is not limited to, murder, rape, and the more significant cases of assault and battery. The solemn cases are to be seen by a jury from one of the following: the Higher Court, the Sheriff Court, or a Justice of the Peace Court (“An Overview of Scotland’s Criminal Justice System” 6). When the police officers can identify the person or people involved in the crime committed, officials can issue a warning, a fine, or send in a prosecution report. If they decide to send in the report, they are declaring they wish them to be seen at trial for the said crime committed. The Procurator fiscal has the responsibility to decide that measures should be taken, or not, for each report. The procurator fiscal has the job of a prosecutor in the American correctional system. If there is no sufficient evidence that the crime was committed, then he or she can decide to discontinue the case. He or she can also choose to close the report if takes no special interest of the public. If he or she …show more content…
In the United States gang violence, rape, and murders and suicides can occur inside prisons. Although it was stated that the suicide rates are diminishing, the violence is not as much. This could be because most of the prison population is made up of citizens from the lower end of society. Many people from poor communities make up the population, and it was even said that one in nine males from the poor community will be incarcerated by the age twenty-three (“Mental Health and Scotland’s Prison Population” 16). Violence that happens upon anyone inside the institution, whether it be prisoner or staff member, can leave scarring psychological and behavioral issues (Cooke 1066). This is an interesting find considering that violence in the prison can be a leading cause for psychological distress, and the staff still is not making the monitoring of the prison and offenders a primary objective. Yet, there is a limited amount of trained mental health experts within the prison who are able to work in the prison system (“Mental Health and Scotland’s Prison Population” 16). The difficult issue at hand is questioning how to maintain and decrease violence within an establishment. In Scotland, the old approach would be to house the violent offenders in a small unit segregated from the rest of the prison population. Similar to the United States’ use of solitary confinement, these offenders who entered these small units usually did not get released
Solemn cases are presented for the most serious crimes and cases. This can include, but is not limited to, murder, rape, and the more significant cases of assault and battery. The solemn cases are to be seen by a jury from one of the following: the Higher Court, the Sheriff Court, or a Justice of the Peace Court (“An Overview of Scotland’s Criminal Justice System” 6). When the police officers can identify the person or people involved in the crime committed, officials can issue a warning, a fine, or send in a prosecution report. If they decide to send in the report, they are declaring they wish them to be seen at trial for the said crime committed. The Procurator fiscal has the responsibility to decide that measures should be taken, or not, for each report. The procurator fiscal has the job of a prosecutor in the American correctional system. If there is no sufficient evidence that the crime was committed, then he or she can decide to discontinue the case. He or she can also choose to close the report if takes no special interest of the public. If he or she …show more content…
In the United States gang violence, rape, and murders and suicides can occur inside prisons. Although it was stated that the suicide rates are diminishing, the violence is not as much. This could be because most of the prison population is made up of citizens from the lower end of society. Many people from poor communities make up the population, and it was even said that one in nine males from the poor community will be incarcerated by the age twenty-three (“Mental Health and Scotland’s Prison Population” 16). Violence that happens upon anyone inside the institution, whether it be prisoner or staff member, can leave scarring psychological and behavioral issues (Cooke 1066). This is an interesting find considering that violence in the prison can be a leading cause for psychological distress, and the staff still is not making the monitoring of the prison and offenders a primary objective. Yet, there is a limited amount of trained mental health experts within the prison who are able to work in the prison system (“Mental Health and Scotland’s Prison Population” 16). The difficult issue at hand is questioning how to maintain and decrease violence within an establishment. In Scotland, the old approach would be to house the violent offenders in a small unit segregated from the rest of the prison population. Similar to the United States’ use of solitary confinement, these offenders who entered these small units usually did not get released