PREMIUM We are still jailing three times more folk than most of our neighbours – except England – despite having a roughly similar crime rate Thirteen years on from a landmark report that recommended Scotland should embrace the Finnish system of community justice – an Audit Scotland report suggests we’re roughly back where we started. As one of the original members of the Scottish Government’s Prisons Commission in 2008, that’s more than disappointing. It suggests the agency of government in changing attitudes about punishment and rehabilitation is seriously limited. Clearly some sentencers continue to avoid the community alternatives they never liked in the first place. The Audit Scotland report reveals that community payback orders (CPOs) were used four times more often in Clackmannanshire than East Renfrewshire for example. Where there’s a will there’s clearly a way – and vice versa.