Scottish prison nationality statistics: FOI release
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
You asked for the nationality data about individuals spending time in prison in Scotland disaggregated to country level.
Response
I enclose the information you requested. Following the standards adopted by the Scottish Prison Service for potentially disclosive information about prisoners, cells in the attached table containing fewer than 5 cases are labelled "< 5".
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Contact
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Central Correspondence Unit
Email: contactus@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000
The Scottish Government
St Andrew's House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG