Lawyers for the Scottish government said moving trans woman prisoners to male-only jails would create an 'unacceptable risk ...

Prisoners are to be released even earlier from Scottish jails, just a year after the threshold was reduced. Criminals will ...

If recommendations go ahead, judges would have to provide reasons why jailing someone for two years or less was the only ...

The campaign group For Women Scotland is challenging the guidance which helps decide which prisons trans people are held in.

The Independent Scottish Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission has called for significant reform, including discouraging ...

The government has argued having a "blanket rule" for where prisoners are housed could breach human rights law.

A NATS MSP wants to ease the pressure on Scotland’s overcrowded jails — by deporting foreign inmates to Kosovo. Kenny Gibson suggested non-Scots inmates could serve out their prison stretches in ...

The case comes in the wake of the outcry over trans rapist Isla Bryson – formerly known as Adam Graham – who was initially ...

Campaign group For Women Scotland (FWS) has launched legal action seeking to overturn prison guidance on transwomen. However, ...

SCOTTISH Labour leader Anas Sarwar came a cropper in an interview on transgender prisoners after pledging to ban them from female jails "within days" if he becomes first minister.

Anas Sarwar has vowed to ban transgender women from the female prisons "within days" if he becomes first minister after the ...

Holding transgender prisoners in jails matching their biological sex would breach their human rights and create an ...