Scotland's justice minister Jim Wallace last week announced that more people will be subject to community supervision with electronic tagging following their convictions. The move is aimed at reducing the prison population.
As part of the Criminal Justice Bill, Wallace said the contract for providing electronic tagging throughout Scotland has been awarded to Reliance Monitoring Services - which already runs a pilot scheme in Hamilton - from May 2002.
As part of the bill, restriction of liberty orders will be introduced which will allow tagging to be a condition of probation orders, drug treatment and testing orders.
The move has been welcomed by most groups working with offenders.
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