Almost one in ten Scottish prisoners have links to serious and organised crime, new figures have revealed, with jails north of the border home to 23 gangland bosses.
Some 589 inmates, or 8% of Scotland’s prison population, have links to organised crime and of these 176 have been linked to 54 different active gangs, many of which operate across the UK and globally.
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