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Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research @thesccjr.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

📕New Book Takes the Temperature of Violence Reduction Units in Scotland & England. Out Now! bit.ly/49NoaYI 🗣️@crmnlgy.bsky.social @timnewburn.bsky.social @susanmcvie.bsky.social @lbilli91.bsky.social Keir Irwin-Rogers & Fern Gillon

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Marguerite Schinkel @margueritesch.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Brilliant new animations explaining the important work @nextchapterscotland.org.uk does and why it is needed 👍🏻

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Erasmus Research @erasmusresearch.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Today, the Scottish 'justice' system' is facing a number of challenges. One that a lot of people aren't aware of is our informal plea-bargaining system. Our new blog draws on the post office scandal to highlight the dangers of this murky world of grubby deals. erasmusresearch.com/the-hidden-c...

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The Hidden Crisis in Plea Bargaining — and Why Scotland Should Be Worried - Erasmus Research

The new UCL/University of Exeter report on the Post Office scandal should alarm anyone who cares about justice in the UK. While much has been written about the Post Office’s aggressive prosecution str...

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Wealth of the world’s 3,000 billionaires surged by $6.5tn (£4.8tn) in real terms over the past decade. World's richest 1% gained $33.9tn in real terms. Billionaires pay effective tax rate of 0.3% of their wealth. Ultra-rich are major cause of poverty, pollution, corruption. Need wealth tax now.

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Billionaires’ wealth surged $6.5tn over past decade, Oxfam reports

Real-terms gains of $33.9tn for world’s richest 1% ‘enough to end annual global poverty 22 times over’, charity says

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Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research @thesccjr.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Cracking piece by Ali Fraser @crmnlgy.bsky.social in @glasgowbell.bsky.social over the weekend on his new podcast Young Warriors where he learns about youth violence in Glasgow, and how projects like G20 are helping turn lives around. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/glasgow-yout... #YoungWarriorsPodcast

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Glasgow beat its youth violence reputation once. Can it do it again?

Recent increases in violence among the city’s youth are concerning. But the blueprint for change remains

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Next Chapter Scotland @nextchapterscotland.org.uk · 11/06/2025

🟡 No one should feel alone after justice system involvement. Our Listening Ear project offers regular friendly phone calls with trained volunteers. Just a space to be heard. 💛 👉 nextchapterscotland.org.uk/contact #SupportNotStigma #ListeningEar

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Contact | Next Chapter Scotland

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Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research @thesccjr.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Major new report out today from SCCJR on the number of deaths in custody. ❗️Prison deaths in Scotland have surged to 64 in the last year. bit.ly/deaths-in-cu... Watch this short video to find out the key stats👇

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I made a comic on how we got here & trump/supporters - collecting things he's said that would seem to have been over the line - and how that never seems to be the case is the real problem... on my site with full alt-text and citations here spinweaveandcut.com/draw-the-line/

A comics page in black and white. Arranged in 5 tiers of panels, each with successively smaller panels and more per row - with the exception of the first. Opens with no panel border - silhouette of a hand in a gun position - with smoke coming from index finger. speech balloon “i could stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldn’t lose any voters, ok?” Caption “this is perhaps the most truthful thing trump has ever said…” Same row - more than half page width panel with three drawings of trump making jerky body distortions mocking cerebral palsy. Caption “one might’ve assumed when he mocked reporter serge kovaleski that it would cross a line and be the end of him in public life.” Speech balloon “now the poor guy, you ought to see this guy!” Caption “that was naive.” Next row, first panel, slightly more than page width - closeup on trump’s open mouth, shouting “when you’re a star, they let you do it. you can do anything. Grab ‘em by the pussy. you can do anything.” Caption “surely, there’d be no coming back from this?” Second panel - silhouettes of tiki torch carrying rioters with their shirt collars showing. Caption “or this?” Dialogue “you also had some very fine people on both sides.” Caption “and yet…” Third row - three panels, first slightly more than a third, rest smaller still. Silhouette of trump throwing a paper towel roll like shooting a basketball. Dialogue “a great day…” Caption “c’mon…”. Second panel closeup on his lips, dialogue “why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Caption “really?” Third panel closeup on a coiled-style phone cord, dialogue “i would like you to do us a favor, though.” In background words from the first articles of impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors. Dialogue “the call with ukraine was perfect, with “no pressure.”
full alt-text on my site at the link

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NOLR Campaign Scotland @nolrscotland.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

The OLR violates the basic principles of justice and has no place in Scotland if it wishes to be a fair and progressive country. Want to help? Go to nolr.org/how-you-can-..., where you can find a template letter to your MSP, make a donation or contact us and join us as a member.

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How You Can help - OLR Campaign

The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies published a report in 2022 which likened indeterminate sentences to psychological torture.

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Marguerite Schinkel @margueritesch.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

We should find a way to tackle harm in society instead of focussing all our anxiety on a few individuals while lots of the same goes on outside. Reports do not reduce harm. See e.g. transformharm.org for better ideas.

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TransformHarm.org | A Resource Hub For Ending Violence

TransformHarm.org is a resource hub for ending violence. It offers an introduction to transformative justice. You can use what is here, and submit recommendations.

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NOLR Campaign Scotland @nolrscotland.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

When you are on an OLR, the system is so rigid and it is so bureaucratic, it’s not like any other long sentence because it has so many extra layers of bureaucracy, so it is easier being a life sentenced prisoner (Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist) #NOLR

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NOLR Campaign Scotland @nolrscotland.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

'I think one of the biggest flaws for me is that it's under-resourced, and there isn't enough case managers, there is not enough specialist services' (Policy professional, RMA) #JusticeScot #NOLR

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NOLR Campaign Scotland @nolrscotland.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

The OLR no's increase and we don’t have the capacity to manage them effectively. Then it impacts on the life population … it was just assumed that we dealt with what was given to us, but the practical application of it was not realised and then it got worse and worse and worse (Prison manager)

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NOLR Campaign Scotland @nolrscotland.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

''You've got some OLRs that have the tiniest punishment part, you're talking months, up to a few years. So, by the time they access any kind of intervention they are already post tariff...” (Forensic psychologist) #NOLR #JustcieReform

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NOLR Campaign Scotland @nolrscotland.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

'A lot of what the OLR was about was the preparation of the risk assessment. Nobody needs an assessment, they need the outcome of the assessment to be delivered, too often the assessment becomes an end in itself' (Former member, Parole Board for Scotland) #ScotJustice #NOLR

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NOLR Campaign Scotland @nolrscotland.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

'He's not motivated to progress with anything. He is too reluctant three years in to have any type of relationship, form peers or get a job because he's like, what's the point? I’ve got an OLR' (Community Justice Social Worker) #NOLR #CommunityJustice

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NOLR Campaign Scotland @nolrscotland.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Today we are drawing on Nicola Ceesay’s forthcoming PhD thesis to highlight the perspectives of practitioners. #NOLR

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Marguerite Schinkel @margueritesch.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Let's do this! Let's make some noise by writing to MSPs and sharing these stories of OLR injustice everywhere we can!

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Marguerite Schinkel @margueritesch.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

A powerful illustration how OLRs impact people who have endured a lot and are motivated to work on themselves, along with the people who support them 1/5. #NOLR @familiesoutside.bsky.social @markmcsherry.bsky.social @prtuk.bsky.social

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Marguerite Schinkel @margueritesch.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

People trying to maintain hope through the prison walls, but failing 1/5 #NOLR

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Marguerite Schinkel @margueritesch.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

OLRs are a Kafkaesque punishment and a bureaucratic nightmare #NOLR - a thread 1/5

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Marguerite Schinkel @margueritesch.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

More horrendous stories of OLRs destroying people's lives, including family members this time.

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NOLR Campaign Scotland @nolrscotland.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The implications of indeterminate sentencing in a ‘free society’ requires that extraordinary measures be justified, with strong safeguards and due process protections against excessive punishment ‘Magna Carta’ #HumanRights #NOLR

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NOLR Campaign Scotland @nolrscotland.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The Vision for Justice states, young people don’t fully develop until their mid-20s and may not understand adult systems and processes, despite this, 38 OLRs have been handed out to people under 25 #NOLR #CYCJ

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NOLR Campaign Scotland @nolrscotland.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Without access to rehabilitative opportunities those serving an OLRs are unable to show that they are no longer a risk to the public. Opportunities for rehabilitation must be offered to be competent within the framework of the ECHR #NOLR #HumanRights

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NOLR Campaign Scotland @nolrscotland.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The UN Special Rapporteur for Torture stated in 2023, indeterminate sentences create “levels of pain or suffering beyond those inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions. Yet, the Scottish Government persists in handing out the OLR #NOLR #HumanRights

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NOLR Campaign Scotland @nolrscotland.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The RMA states ‘assessors should be mindful that evaluating long term risk poses several challenges due to limitations in relation to reliability of future predictions’. Despite this, risk assessments are used to detain people in Scotland indeterminately #NOLR #ScotlandJustice

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NOLR Campaign Scotland @nolrscotland.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The Chair of the Scottish Human Right’s Commission states “OLRs raise significant Human Rights implications for people serving these sentences”. At what point will the Scottish Government acknowledge the OLR is not fit for purpose? #NOLR #SentencingReform

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NOLR Campaign Scotland @nolrscotland.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Want to help? Please go to to nolr.org/how-you-can-..., where you can find a template letter to your MSP, make a donation or contact us and join us as a member.

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How You Can help - OLR Campaign

The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies published a report in 2022 which likened indeterminate sentences to psychological torture.

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NOLR Campaign Scotland @nolrscotland.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Today we are highlighting the stories of people on Orders of Lifelong Restrictions. Follow #NOLR for all posts.

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NOLR Campaign Scotland @nolrscotland.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

‘L’ was given an OLR for breach of the peace. Given a 6 month tariff, he has spent 12 years in prison, where he was diagnosed with autism. It will be at least 4 years before he is released, but he is already scared that one minor misstep once out will see him back in prison #NOLR

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NOLR Campaign Scotland @nolrscotland.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

RMA Guidelines say: ‘assessors should state clearly the limitations of making judgements about life course persistent risk in relation to children/young people’. Despite this, 38 OLRs have been handed out to under 25s, 13 to under 20s #NOLR #UNCRC #YouthJustice

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Marguerite Schinkel @margueritesch.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Is this how we want to spend our money? Let’s invest in community resources, mental health initiatives, grassroots organisations instead!

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Marguerite Schinkel @margueritesch.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Imagine being on an OLR with death a more common outcome than life in the community

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NOLR Campaign Scotland @nolrscotland.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The OLR was introduced to protect the public from “the most serious sexual and violent offenders.” However, 124 people have been given an OLR with a punishment tariff of less than 4 years – 29 of which are under 2 years. #NOLR #ScotJustice

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NOLR Campaign Scotland @nolrscotland.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Scotland has one of the highest prison mortality rates in Europe, OLRs are creating toxic conditions that make this situation worse. 18 people on OLRs have died in custody and 6 in the community, with five people most likely having ended their own life. Source: FOI by #NOLR #ScottishPrisonService

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NOLR Campaign Scotland @nolrscotland.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

“The Scottish penal system has long been regarded as one of the most progressive in the world, but OLR discredits the nation yet, unlike IPP, has not been ended.” 2024- Wendy Sinclair-Gieben, then serving Chief Inspector of Prisons in Scotland. #NOLR #endOLRsentences

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NOLR Campaign Scotland @nolrscotland.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

The IPP in England currently monitors prisoners for 3 years after release, dependent on behaviour. Scotland’s OLR has no end date - monitoring is lifelong. The resources are not available for this, breaching their Human Rights. #SentencingReform #NOLR

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