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Decision Report 201200613

  • Case ref:
    201200613
  • Date:
    September 2014
  • Body:
    Scottish Prison Service
  • Sector:
    Prisons
  • Outcome:
    Not upheld, no recommendations
  • Subject:
    progression

Summary

Mr C, who is a prisoner, complained that obstacles were being put in the way of his progression through the prison system towards parole, including that he had been deselected from a rehabilitation programme. However, our investigation revealed that this was not the case and that the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) had been acting appropriately in relation to his progression. Decisions to deselect are for the SPS to take, but we can look at how the decision was made. We saw a lot of evidence of the reasons for the decision, and found that the SPS had taken it properly.

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Updated: March 13, 2018