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This week The Herald has been running an in-depth special on the state of Scotland’s prisons. You can read all the articles so far here, and there’s still more to come.

An investigation into things like prisoner numbers and the conditions in jails isn’t something I’d have typically been involved in, but there are several links between education and our system of incarceration.

As Professor Susan McVie (one of Scotland’s leading experts in this area) explained to me, there is a “very strong relationship between certain types of behaviours and........

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