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

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

A PRISON guard has been arrested and charged over her alleged relationship with an inmate at Glasgow’s notorious Barlinnie ...

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

A blanket ruling that transgender offenders can only be placed in a prison that matches their sex at birth risks violating the rights of some inmates, the Scottish Government insists. Ministers ...

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

The number of people in Scotland's prisons has risen back above the level which sparked the early release of hundreds of inmates to free up space. More than 300 inmates, half of whom were serving ...

LONDON — Hundreds of prisoners will be freed in Scotland as part of a broader emergency response to ease the burden of overcrowded prisons across the United Kingdom. “We have been managing an ...

A lawyer representing For Women Scotland accused the prison service of “institutional neglect of and contempt for women’s ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anas Sarwar has vowed to ban transgender women from the female prisons "within days" if he becomes first minister after the ...