The Stooshie: the politics podcast from DC Thomson Media

SNP justice secretary on prisoner release

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Episode notes

Scotland’s justice secretary, Angela Constance, explains plans to release more prisoners earlier in their sentences.

We hear about aims to improve prisons in places such as Inverness, as well as her hopes to focus on community-based justice.

The team wraps up a week of SNP intrigue sparked by our exclusive coverage of Stephen Flynn’s ambition to sit at Westminster and Holyrood.

And we look at Scottish Labour’s change of plan on the the UK party’s approach to winter fuel payments, just as the snow starts falling