Scottish Conservatives call for community sentencing uniform scheme

Scottish Conservatives are today calling for all offenders handed community sentences to wear a uniform set of clothes as they carry out their punishment.

John Lamont MSP, Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Justice, said:

"We are leading the fight against the SNP's relentless drive to create a soft-touch Scotland. The SNP had to be pressured by the Scottish Conservatives to honour its commitment of 1000 extra police, it is content to keep the discredited automatic early release system and it has made Home Detention Curfews more accessible. The SNP has also scrapped short sentences, which is absolutely not the way to stop re-offending. Put simply, Alex Salmond's SNP is more interested in emptying our jails than protecting the public.

"We do accept that in some cases community sentences can be appropriate but they need to be toughened up. More generally, we believe that the offenders should wear high visibility clothing, so the public is aware that a punishment is being served.

"Law-abiding Scots and the victims of crime have the right to know who has been placed on these schemes, not from a perspective of making anyone a pariah, but because it is their right to know. It will also serve as a valuable visible deterrent to others reminding them that if you commit a crime you will be punished."

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