Lawyers for the Scottish government say moving trans woman prisoners to male-only jails would create an unacceptable safety ...

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

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

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

The release point for certain short-term prisoners is to be cut to 30% of their sentence, down from 40%.

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

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

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has vowed to ban trans women from all female prisons in Scotland “within days” if he ...

Aidan O’Neill KC, who is representing FWS, suggested to the Court of Session on Tuesday morning that the Scottish government was doubling down as ‘a political calculation’ and that women locked up ...

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.

The Scottish Government has been urged to step in and save the Peterhead Prison Museum, which is facing closure within the ...