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

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

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

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.

Government accused of treating women like ‘pawns’ over trans prisoner policy - For Women Scotland is challenging the Scottish Government’s approach to trans prisoners ...

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

In legal arguments published ahead of the Court of Session case, the Scottish Government said that a blanket ruling that ...

Female prisoners are being treated as "pawns" by an "Orwellian" government policy which allows transgender inmates to be ...

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

There is no automatic breach of female prisoners' human rights by the presence of men who identify as women, in the female ...

A lawyer for the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said the guidance should be reconsidered as it could lead to ...