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In a letter to the Justice Committee, the Prison Officers’ Association (POA) said they faced “challenging and dangerous” conditions in Scotland’s prisons.
The union’s assistant general secretary Phil Fairlie said that with “significant numbers of serious organised crime gang members in the system” the “type and level of threat and danger the staff face is unprecedented”.
“Violence inside our prisons both on staff and on prisoners continues to rise, temperatures relating to tension and frustration are also on the rise and our members are reporting to us the fragmentation and concern of a breakdown of the crucially important relationships between staff and prisoners that allows them to share those confined spaces in a way that allows good order, discipline and productive rehabilitative work to be undertaken, while attempting to keep everyone safe.”
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