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nolrscotland.bsky.social @nolrscotland.bsky.social · 13d

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nolrscotland.bsky.social @nolrscotland.bsky.social · Mar 30

279 OLRs have been imposed since 2006, but only 24 people have been released, with 8 recalled to prison. Source: www.rma.scot/olr/about-the-olr/ #NOLR #PrisonReform

About the OLR - RMA - Risk Management Authority

RMA - Risk Management Authority The Order for Lifelong Restriction (OLR) is a unique sentence. The RMA oversee the administration.

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nolrscotland.bsky.social @nolrscotland.bsky.social · Mar 29

The OLR violates the basic principles of justice and has no place in Scotland if it wishes to be a fair and progressive country.
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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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nolrscotland.bsky.social @nolrscotland.bsky.social · Mar 29

'I think an awful lot of this is about the containment of anxiety and I think it makes us feel an awful lot better to have spent thousands of pounds on a snazzy report, it makes us feel better' (Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist) #NOLR #JusticeSystem

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nolrscotland.bsky.social @nolrscotland.bsky.social · Mar 29

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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nolrscotland.bsky.social @nolrscotland.bsky.social · Mar 29

'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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nolrscotland.bsky.social @nolrscotland.bsky.social · Mar 29

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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nolrscotland.bsky.social @nolrscotland.bsky.social · Mar 29

''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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nolrscotland.bsky.social @nolrscotland.bsky.social · Mar 29

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nolrscotland.bsky.social @nolrscotland.bsky.social · Mar 29

'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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nolrscotland.bsky.social @nolrscotland.bsky.social · Mar 29

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nolrscotland.bsky.social @nolrscotland.bsky.social · Mar 29

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nolrscotland.bsky.social @nolrscotland.bsky.social · Mar 29

'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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nolrscotland.bsky.social @nolrscotland.bsky.social · Mar 29

One prisoner said,“I have to accept I’m never gonnae get out of jail, I’m gonnae die in here”. He got an 18-month sentence and was slapped with an OLR and he’s thinking, “I could die in this place”. (Prison Chaplain) #NOLR #CriminalJusticeReform

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nolrscotland.bsky.social @nolrscotland.bsky.social · Mar 29

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nolrscotland.bsky.social @nolrscotland.bsky.social · Mar 29

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nolrscotland.bsky.social @nolrscotland.bsky.social · Mar 29

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

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nolrscotland.bsky.social @nolrscotland.bsky.social · Mar 28

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. #NOLR

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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nolrscotland.bsky.social @nolrscotland.bsky.social · Mar 28

‘I’ has offered her nephew a home and a family if he was ever to be released. She acknowledges he would be one of the lucky ones. She supports the NOLR Campaign, ‘for ‘J’ and all other young men whom have been handed this inhumane, barbaric sentence’ #NOLR

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nolrscotland.bsky.social @nolrscotland.bsky.social · Mar 28

‘I love ‘J’ dearly and am devastated at how he has been treated by the system, which is supposedly in place to protect vulnerable children and young adults but has badly failed him and traumatized him even further by their handling of his case’ #NOLR

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nolrscotland.bsky.social @nolrscotland.bsky.social · Mar 28

She is proud of how he has dealt with adversity and acknowledges his faults. ‘We have discussed his situation several times and ‘J’ has been very honest and open about what he has done, hasn't done and what he hopes for his future’ #NOLR

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nolrscotland.bsky.social @nolrscotland.bsky.social · Mar 28

'J’ spent his life in care, being physically, sexually and mentally abused. ‘I’ states ‘he was always going to be safer being kept away from his mother and her family’. She respects how he has 'spent those long years in prison reading, learning and bettering himself'. #NOLR

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nolrscotland.bsky.social @nolrscotland.bsky.social · Mar 28

‘I’ worries for her nephew ‘J’ who was 21 when he got an OLR. His punishment tariff was 2 ½ years and he remains in prison after 14 years. Through her own career ‘I’ is aware of research showing that young males' brains are not fully developed into maturity until the age of 25 #NOLR

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nolrscotland.bsky.social @nolrscotland.bsky.social · Mar 28

‘L’ sees his family isolated from others and says it’s is ‘mentally torturing as you have very little to no hope and are constantly facing parole hearings and continuously telling your family outside to have hope but in reality you have no hope yourself of ever getting out’.

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