OTHER countries should “absolutely” be following Scotland’s lead in looking to evolve beyond the “bankrupt” idea of traditional prisons, a leading expert in the US has said.
Amy Fettig, the executive director of the Washington DC-based The Sentencing Project, told the Sunday National that the newly opened women’s custodial units in Dundee and Glasgow – which do not have bars or cells and aim to reintegrate female offenders back into the community – were a “step in the right direction” for prison reform.
“It’s great to see other countries really starting to implement new ideas because that is filtering into the US in a way that it never used to,” she went on.
