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Trans women who have hurt or threatened women or girls will not be held in female prisons unless there are "exceptional" circumstances, new guidance states.

The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) policy follows a public outcry after a rapist was sent to a women's prison.

Isla Bryson raped two women while known as Adam Graham.

The Scottish Conservatives said the new policy was "subjective" and "unacceptable".

The latest figures show there were 23 trans prisoners in Scotland from January to March this year.

They included 19 trans women, seven of whom were in a women's prison, and four trans men - one of whom was in a male prison.

Under previous guidance drawn up in 2014, the prison service allowed prisoners to be placed in facilities matching their gender identity, rather than their sex at birth, providing accommodation that "best suits the person in custody's needs".

This was reviewed and in February, following the Bryson case, it was updated to say no newly convicted or remanded transgender prisoner with a history of violence against women would be housed in female prison facilities.

Under the new policy - which will come into force in February 2024 - a trans woman would not be allowed to move into the female estate if they had been convicted of, or were on remand awaiting trial for, a crime that harmed a female - unless there was "compelling evidence that they did not present an unacceptable risk of harm to those in the women's prison".

These offences include any that result in suffering to a female, such as sexual offences, murder, assault, abduction and intimidation.

Those who have changed their legal gender can also be housed in accordance with their sex at birth, "if it is considered necessary to support people's safety and wellbeing".

The policy states: "Only when staff have enough information to reach a decision that a trans individual can be safely accommodated will they be placed in an establishment which matches their affirmed gender."

Trans men will be admitted to the female estate, but those who have committed crimes against women may be kept separate from other prisoners if it is "deemed necessary" to "keep women in custody safe".

The new guidelines also allow officers to search inmates regardless of the inmate's "affirmed gender" or sex assigned at birth, "if it is necessary to keep the individual or staff safe".

Risks carefully managed'

Teresa Medhurst, chief executive of the Scottish Prison Service, said if a trans woman's offences were historic and low level, they could be moved to the female estate, but she stressed that would be exceptional.

She said all prisoners were "treated with dignity and respect, with their rights upheld, and any risks carefully managed".

"The position, whilst it is still individualised, will ensure that those that have a history of violence against women and girls and present a risk to women will no longer be placed on admission in the women's estate.

"I am content that everyone who is a transgender individual is located in the prison which best suits their risk and needs profile."

She added that she was confident the new policy would address public concerns surrounding trans prisoners.

The Scottish government's Justice Secretary Angela Constance said the new policy protected the "safety and welfare" of staff and prisoners, and the "rights of transgender people".

She said: "SPS has considerable expertise, as well as a duty of care for the management of people in their custody, and this policy upholds its responsibilities to deliver safe, secure and suitable services for all."

Scottish Conservative justice spokesman Russell Findlay MSP said the new prison policy was "unacceptable" and put women at "even greater risk by further eroding their fundamental right to single-sex space".

"They say that male prisoners with a history of violence against women or girls should be allowed in the female estate and will only be blocked if they present a risk, which is completely subjective."

Lucy Hunter Blackman, from policy analysts Murray Blackburn Mackenzie, said any new policy in Scotland should not "talk narrowly about the potential risk of a physical or sexual assault".

She added: "It needs to recognise how the presence of someone male might impact upon group of vulnerable traumatised women, held in spaces from which they cannot escape."

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Female inmates are terrified that transgender prisoners will still be allowed into women’s jails, according to policy reviews that have been secret until now.

Women prisoners are concerned that some trans offenders have manipulated the system by ditching hormone therapy used to help them transition as soon as they enter a female jail.

Vulnerable women have told researchers that they fear being sexually abused by male offenders who claim to be transitioning.

The reviews were conducted by the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) after public outrage over the case of Isla Bryson, a double rapist previously known as Adam Graham who was initially remanded to Cornton Vale women’s prison in January last year. Only after political condemnation of the decision was Bryson switched to a male prison.

New guidelines for the SPS will still allow transitioning male prisoners to be admitted to female jails if they have no record of violence against women.

Single-sex campaign groups said the new policy was “shocking”. They said trans prisoners should not be put in women’s jails where most inmates have suffered lives of physical, sexual and domestic abuse.

Kate Coleman, director of Keep Prisons Single Sex said: “At its heart is not the safety of women, rather it is the principle of maximising the opportunities for transgender prisoners to be allocated to the estate corresponding to their expressed gender.”

The aim, she said, was to increase the opportunity for male prisoners identifying as women to have access to women in prison so that they could “practise” being female.

The SPS drew up its policy after a series of unpublished reviews asking female prisoners and officers about their concerns.

The Sunday Post said it had gained access to several papers that contain claims of trans prisoners “manipulating the system” and refusing, as soon as they get into a women’s jail, to take the female hormones that prevent their male genitalia “working”.

One female prisoner said of a trans fellow inmate: “If I was to have an argument with them then I would feel at risk because that’s the strength of a man.” Another said: “The last one to get out [of jail] is now back living as a man. The one before that got out — back living as a man. When he was in our hall he was telling people ‘I’m stopping taking my medication because I can’t get [an erection]’.”

Rhona Hotchkiss, the former governor of a number of Scotland’s prisons, including Cornton Vale, expressed an “increasing concern” for the wellbeing of female prisoners as well as staff. “Why was this research never issued by the SPS?” Hotchkiss asked. “Possibly because it would increase the pressure on them and the SNP government?”

She added: “It is abundantly clear that women in prison — not all of them and not all of the time — are by turns distressed, frightened, annoyed or irritated by the presence of men who identify as women in women’s prisons.”

The SPS said its new policy supported the health, safety and wellbeing of all people living and working in Scotland’s prisons. The reviews had not been published to protect personal information.

“No transgender women with a history of violence against women and girls, who present a risk to women, will be placed in the female estate,” the SPS said.

Separately, Patrick Harvie, the Scottish Greens co-leader, has been criticised for a “dangerous” attack on critics of Nicola Sturgeon’s gender self-identification bill after comparing them with bigots who hate Muslims.

In a podcast the Scottish government minister said that people who express concerns about changes to transgender laws are no different from the far-right trying to ‘“demonise and stigmatise the Muslim community”.

Meghan Gallacher, deputy leader of the Scottish Conservatives, said: “Patrick Harvie typically dismisses legitimate concerns people had about how the bill threatened the safety of women and girls because he is so wedded to his dogmatic views.”

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The Scottish government has been urged to block the transfer of a violent transgender prisoner from a men's prison to a women's jail.

It is understood that Tiffany Scott, who was previously known as a man called Andrew Burns, has applied for the move.

The Daily Record first reported that the transfer has been approved and is likely to happen later this year.

The Scottish Conservatives have called for the move to be stopped.

A spokesperson for the Scottish government said it was an operational matter for the Scottish Prison Service.

The prison service said decisions about where to place transgender prisoners were made on "an individualised basis".

It follows the imprisonment of Isla Bryson - a transgender woman convicted of two rapes before she changed gender - in Cornton Vale women's prison.

She was later moved to a male wing of HMP Edinburgh.

Scott is serving an indefinite sentence as she is subject to an order for lifelong restriction (OLR), meaning she will only be released when she is no longer considered an "unmanageable risk to public safety".

She was handed that sentence in 2013, after admitting stalking a 13-year-old girl by sending letters from her cell.

In 2017 Falkirk Sheriff Court was locked down amid safety fears as Scott was sentenced over a series of violent incidents in Glenochil Prison in Clackmannanshire.

They included striking a prison nurse on her back with a hurled chair, punching a prison officer in the face, and spitting at another officer and trying to bite him.

She also smeared excrement over her cell, tore a drip needle out of her arm, and ripped up "tear-proof" clothing.

The Scottish Conservative equalities spokesperson, Rachael Hamilton MSP, said Scott presented a "grave risk" to the safety of women who came into contact with her.

"Nicola Sturgeon has repeatedly tried to reassure the Scottish public that the Scottish Prison Service's risk assessment would protect women from predatory men, yet the process is clearly not fit for purpose if this dangerous offender has been approved for transfer to a women's jail," she said.

"Women's safety must not take a backseat to the wishes of violent criminals.

"Nicola Sturgeon has already U-turned under public pressure to belatedly remove double rapist Isla Bryson from a women's jail, she must now intervene to block the transfer of this violent individual before it takes place, or knowingly risk the safety of some of Scotland's most vulnerable women."

SNP MSP Ash Regan, who quit a ministerial role over the Scottish government's Gender Recognition Reform Bill, has also opposed the move.

In a post on Twitter, she said: "Tiffany Scott, formerly Andrew Burns, one of the most dangerous prisoners in Scotland has gained approval to be moved into the women's prison estate.

"Scott has attacked female prison officers and stalked a child from prison. No men should be placed in a women's prison."

If Scott is transferred to the female estate, it would likely not be to HMP Cornton Vale as it is due to be replaced by a new facility called HMP Stirling later this year.

The Scottish Prison Service said it would not comment on individuals.

"Decisions by the SPS as to the most appropriate location to accommodate transgender people are made on an individualised basis, informed by a multi-disciplinary assessment of both risk and need," a spokesperson said.

"Such decisions seek to protect both the wellbeing and rights of the individual as well as the welfare and rights of others around them, including staff, in order to achieve an outcome that balances risks and promotes the safety of all.

"Where there are any concerns about any risks posed by an individual, either to themselves or others, we retain the ability to keep them separate from the mainstream population until an agreed management plan is in place."

A Scottish government spokesperson said: "The placement of prisoners is an operational matter for the Scottish Prison Service who use comprehensive individualised risk assessments to inform decisions, such as the appropriate location of transgender people in custody.

"SPS is reviewing their policy on managing transgender prisoners in partnership with the Scottish government and that process is nearing completion."

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A judge told the transgender rapist Isla Bryson that they were not “the victim in this situation”, as the 31-year-old was jailed for eight years.

Bryson, who committed the attacks while still known as Adam Graham, was sentenced at the High Court in Edinburgh on Tuesday morning.

Lord Scott said that while he had access to medical reports which suggested Bryson was “vulnerable”, in part due to traumatic childhood events, this was “no excuse” for raping two women who had been “systematically” targeted.

Bryson claimed during the trial that they had known they were transgender at age four, although this was later questioned by their wife and mother who both said they had shown no interest in transitioning. Bryson only began living as a woman after being charged with rape.

The case was seen as contributing to the end of Nicola Sturgeon’s political career after the double rapist was initially sent to a female prison under a Scottish Prison Service (SPS) policy that followed the same principle as her gender self-ID laws.

The legislation has been blocked by the UK Government while the SPS has scrapped its own rules following an outcry. Bryson was moved to a male jail following an outcry although Ms Sturgeon has repeatedly refused to say whether she believes the rapist to be male or female.

‘Alternative account of events’

Sentencing Bryson, Lord Scott said it was clear that Bryson would pose a “particularly significant risk to any woman with whom you form a relationship”.

He said they had constructed “an alternative account of events” in which the two victims colluded together, and continued to deny the crimes.

The claims of a conspiracy were “without any foundation” and had been rejected by the jury, he said.

“You see yourself as the victim in this situation,” Lord Scott said. “You are not. Regardless of your own vulnerability, in a period of just under three years, you raped two women who can both be regarded as vulnerable.”

Edward Targowski KC, for the defence, told the High Court in Edinburgh that Bryson had been subjected to “ill-judged, ill-informed and ignorant” comments about their decision to undergo gender reassignment. He said this included references to Bryson’s “dead name” of Adam Graham.

The lawyer also told the court that Bryson had decided to change their gender many years ago and had been given “maximum” amounts of medication to help achieve this by doctors at the Sandyford Clinic, a specialist clinic in Glasgow.

Bryson was on an NHS waiting list which was several years long for a gender reassignment operation, Mr Targowski said.

However, Bryson’s estranged wife, Shonna Graham, has described claims to identify as a woman as “a sham”. The rapist’s mother, Janet Bryson, said her son never showed any interest in living as a girl while growing up.

Bryson attacked two women in Clydebank and Glasgow in 2016 and 2019. They were both raped in their own homes, after Bryson met them online, a setting in which Lord Scott said they “were entitled to feel entirely safe”.

Russell Findlay, the Scottish Tory shadow community safety minister, said that Bryson may serve as little as four years, a prospect that “will likely be of little comfort to victims”.

‘Full scrutiny’

He added: “They’ve already suffered from the perverse decision to address this rapist as ‘she’ and by Nicola Sturgeon and her justice secretary refusing to say what everyone in Scotland can see with their own eyes - that Bryson is a man.

“Even following Nicola Sturgeon’s sudden resignation, the SNP government continues to attempt to dupe the public by saying this case has nothing to do with its gender self-ID bill.

“But if this SNP law is enacted, it will be wide open to exploitation by giving the legal right to sex offenders to declare they are female, no matter the risks to women and girls.

“Going forward, the prison service must publish its delayed new policy on transgender prisoners, allowing for full scrutiny, feedback and, if necessary, amendment.”

Bryson was placed on the sex offenders’ register and will be supervised for three years after release.

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[ad_1] The party has called on the Justice Secretary, Angela Constance, to ensure Police Scotland and the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) have sufficient resources to bring those responsible for a series of wilful fire-raising attacks to justice. Research carried out by Scottish Conservative shadow justice secretary Russell Findlay shows there have been at least eight deliberate vehicle fires outside prisons over the last five years. READ MORE: Anas Sarwar says he wants to be 'First Minister for Glasgow' Six vehicles were destroyed after being set on fire at HMP Addiewell in January this year and another was targeted at HMP Perth last month. Two more were set alight at HMP Barlinnie in January 2020 with another attack occurring at the same prison in March the following year. Other attacks are known to have taken place at HMP Shotts in November 2020 and at HMP Low Moss the same month. Mr Findlay said he believed what he termed as the "cowardly" attacks were "almost certainly" ordered by criminal gangs in a deliberate attempt to intimidate prison staff. He said: "Dedicated prison staff dealing with society's most dangerous people should not have to suffer such cowardly acts of intimidation. "We know that organised crime groups use violence, threats and blackmail to smuggle drugs and other contraband into prisons. But more must be done to teach criminals that they can't get away with terrorising staff. "I'm calling on the Justice Secretary to ensure that sufficient resources are in place so that every single one of these attacks is subject to the fullest possible investigation and prosecution. "Prison staff should be confident that they have the protection and support they deserve. If any other occupation suffered so many targeted attacks, there would be an understandable uproar so why should they be expected to put up with it?" A Scottish Government spokesperson said: "Assaults on prison staff, or damage to staff or prison property, are completely unacceptable. "SPS take these incidents incredibly seriously and report them to Police Scotland for further investigation. READ MORE: Calls for the government to intervene in fire service cuts "The Scottish Government has provided an extra £29 million this year to the SPS to deliver a secure prison system on top of the £97 million in capital funding provided to continue the modernisation of the prison estate." A SPS spokesperson said: "The safety and security of our staff is a key priority. "Incidents of alleged criminality are reported to Police Scotland." [ad_2]

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It was already bad enough to have feminist wanting to close female prisons down when we can barely get female monsters into the prison.

Now these monsters are getting free homes over the homeless.

New community units for women prisoners will look like flats, without high walls, barred windows or barbed wire, a leading prison governor has revealed.

Rhona Hotchkiss, governor of Cornton Vale women's prison, said female offenders housed in at least five new custodial units would do their own cooking and laundry and could be free to come and go to local leisure facilities such as gyms, or to attend work placements.

She said each of the new units would be able to hold up to 20 women and will probably be newly built, designed around the needs of women who have suffered trauma and to promote good family contact.

Speaking at a meeting of the Scottish Association for the Study of Offending in Glasgow, she added: "Really importantly, because these units will be in the community, they have to have minimal visible security. So they won't have high walls, they won't have barbed wire, they won't have bars on the window, they will not look like prisons."

Each unit would have a mother and child area and children would be able to come and visit and stay overnight to help build family links she said. "They'll all be in small flatted units, they'll all be cooking for themselves, they'll be doing their own cleaning, their own washing, able to wander about, confined only within the perimeter of the building and only at the times that are appropriate," she said. "It is our hope that after a short period of assessment when women come into community custody units, they will be going out. They will be going out to access health services, they will be going to access social work services, they will be going out to access work placements, they might be going home for a visit, they will be using leisure facilities and so on in the community."

The detail gives the clearest idea yet of what is being planned by the Scottish Prison Service for the women's prison estate, after justice secretary Michael Matheson announced a major u-turn last June, scrapping plans for a 300-capacity new women's prison HMP Inverclyde on a site near Greenock.

The planned new jail - larger than Scotland's existing women's prison, HMP Cornton Vale, was seen as contrary to policies on reducing the number of women in prison, but acquiring and preparing the site cost £7.8m which the Scottish Government had to write off.

Now Cornton Vale, which is seen as outdated and unfit for its purpose, is to be demolished and a new prison built on it site with room for 80 of Scotland's more dangerous women who are seen as presenting a danger to the public and need to be held in more secure conditions. Ms Hotchkiss said its name would be changed as too many "bad images and bad experiences" were linked with it.

Meanwhile five or more community custodial units are planned for locations yet to be decided. Reporting on Ms Hotchkkiss' comments, Holyrood magazine said sites might be chosen according to the postcodes from where the majority of women offenders hail.

Ms Hotchkiss said some local communities might be resistant to having units opened near them but claimed politicians from all parties had backed the change of direction on women's jails. "There was a huge coalition around the announcement to not proceed with Inverclyde. Almost every politician in the Scottish parliament thought that was the right thing to do," she said.

"When we open these community units we need them all to stand up and stand beside us and say 'this is the right thing to do'."

Michael Matheson is likely to discusse the plans on Tuesday, when he is due to address the Scottish Parliament's Justice Committee about progress on implementing the findings of the government's commission on women offenders. A model design for the new custody units is expected to be published in a matter of weeks.

A spokesman for the SPS said some operational details had not been finalised, and would still need to be agreed with partners, adding: "Since the decision not to go ahead with HMP Inverclyde, we have been looking at dealing with women in custody in different ways. We recognise there is still a need for discussion and further consultation with community providers, health care providers, local authorities and others."

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I swear to God, depending on your gender is like there's two different Injustice systems.

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Newly convicted or remanded transgender prison inmates will initially be placed in jails according to their gender at birth, the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has confirmed.

The policy was confirmed in an urgent review which found a double rapist being placed in a women's jail did not put female prisoners at risk of harm.

However, the SPS said it received "conflicting" details on Isla Bryson.

It also called for an urgent review of admission rules for some inmates.

The investigation was ordered by Justice Secretary Keith Brown in the wake of public outcry after Bryson was initially housed in segregation at Cornton Vale prison in Stirling.

Bryson - who will be sentenced later this month for raping two women while she known as a man called Adam Graham - was then moved to a male wing at HMP Edinburgh.

In an interview with BBC Scotland, Mr Brown initially said the rule applied only to transgender people convicted of violence against women.

But after an intervention from a member of his staff, the justice secretary clarified that all transgender prisoners will go into an assessment in a prison service facility which matches the gender of their birth.

He added: "That will very often be a process which is undertaken in a segregated environment, before an assessment is made as to where the person goes.

"And if it turns out the person has that history [of violence against women or girls] then of course they will not be going to, if they are a trans woman, to the female estate."

SPS chief executive Teresa Medhurst said in a letter to Mr Brown that was published alongside a summary of the Bryson case review that she had ordered an urgent review of all transgender women in Scottish prisons.

She said: "Until these reviews are complete, any transgender person currently in custody and who has any history of violence against women - including sexual offences - will not be relocated from the male to the female estate.

"In addition, any newly convicted or remanded transgender prisoner will initially be placed in an establishment commensurate with their birth gender."

Under guidance drawn up in 2014, the prison service says "accommodation provided must be the one that best suits the person in custody's needs and should reflect the gender in which the person in custody is currently living."

However an updated SPS policy from last month stated that no newly convicted or remanded transgender prisoner with a history of violence against women would be housed in female prison facilities.

The latest change means that transgender women will now automatically go to a male prison regardless of whether or not they have previous convictions of violence against women. They will then be assessed before a decision is taken on where to place them longer-term.

However, the review says that in "exceptional circumstances" a transgender person with a history of violence against women could potentially be relocated to or placed in a prison which does not match their gender at birth, with ministerial approval.

The SPS review made four key recommendations to the Scottish government.

It found the prison service received "conflicting and limited information" about Bryson beyond the immediate convictions and said a "shared justice process" for the admission of transgender people to prisons should be considered.

The SPS also called for an urgent review of admission rules and improved communications about transgender prisoners from other justice sector organisations.

The report concluded SPS policy was followed in Bryson's case and said an individualised approach to risk assessments should continue.

"It is recommended that this person centred, individualised approach, which seeks to balance the rights of the individual with the risks they pose to themselves and to others continues and is encouraged," the report said.

Key findings and recommendations resulting from the review were published on Thursday, but Ms Medhurst said she believed it was "not necessary" to publish the full report due to the level of personal information it contains.

Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross urged the first minister to publish in full the review of the Bryson case at First Minister's Questions earlier on Thursday, with Ms Sturgeon pledging only to release the key findings.

Bryson was found guilty of raping two women in 2016 and 2019 in Clydebank and Glasgow before she changed gender.

The review into the handling of that case by the prison service was completed by the Scottish Prison Service last Friday, with a summary being made public on Thursday afternoon.

The SPS has also been conducting a Gender Identity and Gender Reassignment (GIGR) policy review since 2019 in response to concerns raised about welfare of people in its care.

Mr Brown confirmed the new policy on assessing transgender prisoners would remain in place pending the findings of the GIGR review.

In response to the Bryson report, he said: "All recommendations from the review have been accepted by Ms Medhurst as chief executive and will be progressed by SPS in collaboration with others as needed.

"As confirmed in the letter, SPS will factor the learning identified from this review into its GIGR policy review, which is ongoing."

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Difficultés de gestion des prisons écossaises

La gestion des prisons est une chose très difficile: certaines prisons ont des prisonniers importants, surtout négligents. La gestion de la sécurité des prisons dans de nombreux pays a également été un casse-tête. Comment mieux gérer la sécurité et l’ordre des prisons est devenu le principal problème auquel sont confrontés les directeurs de prison. Un projet pilote pour tester les signaux mobiles avec la technologie d'interception dans les prisons en Ecosse annoncera les deux prisons en tant que procureur général Kenny Max Kiel dans les prochaines semaines. Les brouilleur wifi peuvent réduire les signaux sans fil. MacAskill rend visite à HMP Shotts, l'une des prisons choisies par les pilotes, pour voir la technologie installée, et a déclaré que le projet avait besoin d'un feu vert dans quelques semaines. Une autre prison d'essai est HMP Glenochil.

https://www.skylifr.com/brouilleur-wifi.html Les téléphones portables sont interdits de prison parce qu'ils craignent que certains prisonniers n'utilisent leurs foules pour rester en contact avec leur famille et leurs amis, tandis que d'autres seront utilisés pour des activités criminelles. L'utilisation mobile est liée aux activités des gangs et au crime organisé, ainsi qu'au harcèlement des victimes dans les prisons et à l'approvisionnement en drogue. L'Écosse a adopté des lois qui permettent au personnel pénitentiaire d'interférer avec les signaux sans fil dans les prisons pour empêcher les prisonniers de communiquer avec le monde extérieur. «Le gouvernement a criminalisé la possession de téléphones portables par les détenus. C'est le fait que le Scottish Prison Service a investi beaucoup d'argent dans l'utilisation de la technologie et du renseignement et a empêché l'utilisation des téléphones portables dans nos prisons. "Cette nouvelle législation permettra à SPS d'étendre encore sa technologie pour limiter l'utilisation des téléphones portables par les prisonniers et devrait être mise en service dans quelques semaines." D'autres prisons de Blighty devront peut-être attendre un certain temps avant d'utiliser une technologie de brouillage similaire, car la justice a déclaré que le signal pour empêcher toutes les prisons d'être envoyées en prison était «trop élevé». Solution d'interférence de signal de téléphone portable de prison 1. Comment concevoir et installer des brouilleurs de téléphone portable dans les prisons pour éviter les interférences résidentielles?

https://www.skylifr.com 2. Lors de l'installation de brouilleurs dans les prisons, comment promouvoir l'installation de brouilleurs dans les prisons? Comment réduire les difficultés de construction et réduire les coûts d'ingénierie? 3. Afin d'installer un moniteur dans une prison, certaines données doivent être fournies. Étant donné que la Roumanie installe des brouilleur dans les prisons pour lutter contre la fraude sur les téléphones portables de la même manière que la fraude, c'est très efficace.

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New SPS Home Detention Curfew Guidance

New SPS Home Detention Curfew Guidance

At the end of October 2018, the Scottish Prison Service changed the way they assess prisoners for release on a  Home Detention Curfew (HDC).  As a result of this change, there has been an almost 75%  reduction in the number of prisoners granted an HDC.

The reasons for the policy change are explained in  Governors and Managers:  Action Notice 065a/18.

The Action Notice explains the material…

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Target date to be set for smoke-free Scottish prisons – BBC News

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The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) is set to reveal the target date for Scotland's prisons becoming smoke free.

The date will be announced at the launch of a major report into prison workers' exposure to second-hand smoke.

It is expected to show high levels of second-hand smoke in parts of some prisons.

The large scale Tobacco in Prison Study (TIPS) was led by the University of Glasgow, with input from the University of Aberdeen.

A survey by the Scottish Prison Service in 2015 found that 72% of those in custody smoked - more than three times the rate of the general population.

Scotland introduced a ban on smoking in enclosed public places in 2006, but it did not apply to prisons.

However, prison rules were amended at the time to restrict smoking to certain areas, such as cells and outdoor recreation spaces.

Claims 'backed up'

Staff, visitors and contractors are not permitted to smoke anywhere on SPS property.

A small number of prisons in Scotland have designated a proportion of their residential areas as smoke-free.

The move towards smoke-free prisons is in keeping with the Scottish government's aim of creating a "tobacco-free generation" by 2034.

SPS, the Scottish government and the NHS have said they will work together to help those in custody stop smoking.

Phil Fairlie, chairman of the Prison Officers' Association Scotland, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: "Our members have claimed and argued all along, since the smoking ban was introduced, that they are constantly exposed to very high levels of smoking inside prisons.

"This survey, for the first time provides data to back up that claim and the concern that's been raised by staff throughout those years.

"Higher than 75% of the prison population smoke so it's a very high number of people who are involved in that activity."

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