Tag: Scottish Prison Service
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How the Scottish Human Rights Commission responded to the placement of men in women’s prisons
Correspondence with the Scottish Human Rights Commission In June 2023 we met with the SHRC to discuss our strong concerns about its submission (2022) to the Scottish Prison Service...
1st August 2025
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Prisons in Scotland: who is responsible?
On 25 April, following the judgment in the UK Supreme Court, we wrote to Angela Constance MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Justice, asking the Scottish Government to withdraw the Scottish...
11th July 2025
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How the the Scottish Human Rights Commission forgot about women in prison
Introduction The Scottish Human Rights Commission has an established record of supporting gender self-identification principles in policy and law. Most notably, it supported reform of the Gender Recognition Act...
4th April 2025
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MBM submission to the Criminal Justice Committee on the Scottish Prison Service transgender prisoner policy
The following evidence on the Scottish Prison Service Transgender Prisoner Policy was submitted to the Criminal Justice Committee ahead of its meeting on 11 January 2024. The official report...
12th February 2024
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Changing the prison rules (again)
On the 5 December 2023 the Scottish Prison Service published its Policy for the Management of Transgender People in Custody. The publication revised both the preceding 2014 policy and...
12th December 2023
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MBM letter to the Scottish Human Rights Commission
It is almost five years since the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) stated that it intended to review its 2014 Gender Identity and Gender Reassignment Policy. This means that the...
24th October 2023
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The missing statistic: assessing Scottish Prison Service policy on transgender prisoners
In late 2018 the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) commented in an online media article that it intended to review its Gender Identity and Gender Reassignment policy. Developed over a...
22nd June 2023
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Losing Sight of Women’s Rights: the unregulated introduction of gender self-identification as a case study of policy capture in Scotland. Scottish Affairs
‘Losing Sight of Women’s Rights: the unregulated introduction of gender self-identification as a case study of policy capture in Scotland’ was published in Scottish Affairs Vol. 28 (3) August...
29th July 2019