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Jail chiefs under pressure as over 2000 Scots prisoners not yet guilty of crime

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More than a quarter of Scotland's prison population is made up of people who are on remand and have not yet been to trial. Over 2000 inmates are languishing behind bars - despite officially being innocent of the crimes they have been charged with.

The remand population rate, which has doubled since April 2020, is putting major pressure on prison chiefs across the country.

Remand prisoners must be housed separately from those already convicted of their crimes.As of the beginning of August, 2,164 inmates were on remand and untried, with a further 303 convicted but still awaiting sentence, taking the total remand population to 29 per cent.

The average time a remand prisoner spends inside is 87 days.However, while some move through the system quickly, 33.4 per cent of those currently on remand have been waiting beyond the 140-day mark.

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