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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

Gerry Moynihan KC said the Scottish government cannot ‘run the risk’ of a trans inmate committing suicide ...

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