Balancing Risk and Need: Review of the decision to send Brian Martin to open conditions in the light of his subsequent absconding from the Open Estate on 18 May 2009 and issues highlighted as a consequence

Citation

Spencer A (2009) Balancing Risk and Need: Review of the decision to send Brian Martin to open conditions in the light of his subsequent absconding from the Open Estate on 18 May 2009 and issues highlighted as a consequence. Scottish Government. Edinburgh: Scottish Government. www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2009/06/23145616/0.

Abstract
First paragraph: The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) imprisons proportionately more people than nearly all other western European countries. At the beginning of June 2009 it held approximately 8,500: about 8,125 in prison and a further 375 on Home Detention Curfew (HDC). SPS and its staff have a good record when it comes to security.