Parliament Workbench

Petition · PE01150 · Session 3

Petition by David Wemyss, on behalf of Aberdeen Prison Visiting Committee, consider whether large prisons remote from prisoners’ families offer the best way of rehabilitating offenders or whether, as an alternative, localised community prisons should

Lodged Submitted 7 May 2008 Justice
Signatures
33
Comments
0
Considered
14 meetings
in the Official Report

What it asks

Petition by David Wemyss, on behalf of Aberdeen Prison Visiting Committee, consider whether large prisons remote from prisoners’ families offer the best way of rehabilitating offenders or whether, as an alternative, localised community prisons should be supported much more strongly to maintain genuinely easy access to family links and other community virtues.

Where it was considered

Official Report
  1. 10 Jun 2008
    2 mentions
  2. 2 Dec 2008
    Public Petitions Committee
    Current Petitions
    1 mention
  3. 10 Feb 2009
    Public Petitions Committee
    Current Petitions
    1 mention
  4. 3 Mar 2009
    Public Petitions Committee
    Current Petitions
    1 mention
  5. 30 Mar 2009
    Public Petitions Committee
    Current Petitions
    1 mention
  6. 21 Apr 2009
    Public Petitions Committee
    Current Petitions
    1 mention
  7. 16 Jun 2009
    Public Petitions Committee
    Current Petitions
    1 mention
  8. 23 Sep 2009
    Plenary
    Petitions Process Inquiry
    1 mention
  9. 3 Nov 2009
    Public Petitions Committee
    Current Petitions
    1 mention
  10. 16 Dec 2009
    Plenary
    Business Motions
    1 mention
  11. 6 Jan 2010
    Plenary
    Business Motions
    2 mentions
  12. 13 Jan 2010
    Plenary
    Community Prisons
    2 mentions
  13. 9 Feb 2010
    Public Petitions Committee
    Current Petitions
    1 mention
  14. 8 Mar 2011
    1 mention

Signatures by country

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