Prison Visitors 'Overworked and Underfunded' Jails: Volunteers Jails: Volunteers Lack of Funding Could Hinder Vital Changes to the Service

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A LEADING member of Scotland's prison-visiting committees has called for increased funding for the vital justice scheme, claiming that the volunteers who monitor jails are working ever longer hours and don't receive expenses for some trips.

Jim Scott, chairman of the committee responsible for visiting Scotland's only women's prison at Cornton Vale, near Stirling, spoke out after a major review recommended changes to the system that has independently scrutinised the health and welfare of inmates and staff at Scotland's 16 adult prisons for 120 years.

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Prison Visitors 'Overworked and Underfunded' Jails: Volunteers Jails: Volunteers Lack of Funding Could Hinder Vital Changes to the Service

The groups, which are funded by individual prisons, face a huge shakeup when local authority-funded Criminal Justice Authorities (CJAs) take charge of appointments and funding...

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