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Morning Call: 04/07/2014

Kaye Adams

04/07/2014

BBC Radio Scotland - Morning Call, 04/07/2014

Kaye Adams asks if women should be put in prison.

The new £60 million HMP Inverclyde is set to become a national prison for women. Kaye Adams asks: Should women be put in prison? Call 0500 92 95 00.

TOPIC 1: ROLF HARRIS
Rolf Harris is due to be sentenced for indecently assaulting four girls - including one who was seven or eight - in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. The musician and artist, 84, was found guilty of all the 12 charges he faced after an eight-week trial at London's Southwark Crown Court. One of the girls was a childhood friend of his daughter, whom he repeatedly assaulted from when she was 13. The judge warned Harris a jail term was "uppermost in the court's mind". We'll be exploring whether these high profile convictions mean that we are now getting better at dealing with child sex abuse.
Kaye asks: Rolf Harris is due to be sentenced today, what punishment do you think fits his crime?

TOPIC 2: WOMEN IN PRISON
The new £60 million HMP Inverclyde is set to become a national prison for women. The Howard League in Scotland says that the pains of imprisonment are more acute for women than men and is calling for the number of women held in prison in Scotland to be reduced. The organisation which campaigns for penal reform says the female prison population has risen by 120% since 2000.
In 2012 former Lord Advocate Dame Elish Angiolini's commission called for fewer women to be sent to prison.

Kaye asks: Should female offenders be treated differently from males?

Extra question:
Research shows the average Scots home has 142 items of useless clutter - we want to know what's the most useless thing in your house?

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