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This should not have taken so long

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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A woman was sent to an all-male prison after the authorities mistook her features for that of a man. The inmate, who was assigned female at birth, was wrongly processed by the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), The Independent reported. The woman was sent to HMP Perth, an all-male prison, and remained in segregation overnight after the error was discovered. She was transferred HMP Cornton Vale, a women’s jail, the following day. Police Scotland said it was investigating the incident, adding that she was remanded into custody with “incomplete information about their gender.” A spokesperson added: “We are reviewing our custody procedure to ensure this does not happen again.”

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Scotland’s justice secretary has said there are safeguards now in place to stop trans prisoners with a history of violence against women being put in female jails.

Angela Constance made the comments as she was shown around the £85.7 million HMP Stirling on Thursday, with the women-only facility set to start housing people from the summer.

HMP Stirling will replace HMP Cornton Vale where double rapist Isla Bryson was originally sent after being convicted. Bryson was later transferred to the male estate.

The prison will be home to about 100 inmates, and those behind the Stirling facility said it has been designed with a trauma-informed approach, which takes account of gender, to better help rehabilitate those who are sent there.

It will replace HMP Cornton Vale, which was the centre of national media attention this year after double rapist Isla Bryson, 35, was sent to the prison after being convicted.

But, on Thursday, Constance said that “right now we have very important safeguards in place” to protect women in jails.

“That means that no transgender prisoner with a history of violence or sexual offending against women can be placed in the women’s estate,” she said.

“We will always continue to review safeguards because the Scottish Prison Service has a responsibility to the safety and wellbeing of all prisoners, including their staff.”

Bryson, who raped two women when known as Adam Graham, was in the women-only prison for two days before being moved to HMP Edinburgh after uproar.

Concerns have also been raised about where Andrew Miller, 53, who last week admitted abducting a primary school aged girl while dressed as a woman before sexually assaulting her, will serve a sentence.

First Minister Humza Yousaf last week said that Miller, who is in the process of transitioning, is being held in the male prison estate.

HMP Stirling, which will also be a young offenders institute, includes areas to support women needing more intensive mental health support, a separation and re-integration unit, a progression unit, a mother and baby unit, and an assessment centre.

It has smaller accommodation areas, and the SPS said there was evidence to suggest they were more effective in achieving better outcomes for women.

Constance said: “This is a world class facility that will provide world-leading care to women who are sentenced to custody.

“It has all the right services and the right environment and the right equipment to do better by women to improve their prospects of rehabilitation and reintegration into the community.”

But replacing the women-only prison has cost millions more than planned, taking it over its initial £74 million budget.

HMP Stirling was also originally planned to be operational by the end of 2020.

Allister Purdie, director of operations at the prison service, said the prison was under construction when the pandemic struck in 2020, with that causing delays as well as increases in the cost of materials.

Mr Purdie, who has been the operations director for more than three years, said putting the final touches on the facility was a “milestone” for the service.

“It’s a real significant day because this is part of our journey about moving forward the women’s agenda and the women’s strategy in Scotland, and a real different model of how we manage women in Scotland,” he said.

Mr Purdie said it fulfils the recommendations made in 2012 that there should be a “smaller, more established, more focused establishment” which worked with women in a “different way that allowed us to get underneath real complex issues that women had, who were coming into custody and to be able to break that cycle of offending”.

He said by the late summer it will be around half its capacity, and added: “Then we’ll start to filter in people from the courts and other establishments.

“And that’s really because some of the women have really difficult and complex needs. We just can’t fill them up in huge numbers.”

He said it would be be built up to full capacity towards the end of the year.

It is the only women-only prison north of the border, and will hold the majority of female prisoners. Some women prisoners are also held at HMP Edinburgh, HMP Greenock, and HMP Grampian.

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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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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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The Scottish Prison Service launched a review after a public outcry over the decision to put Isla Bryson in an all-female jail The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has concluded a transgender inmate with a history of sexual violence as a male did not pose a threat to other prisoners when previously held in a women’s facility. Isla Bryson’s case has garnered widespread media attention in the UK,…

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Transgender double rapist not a threat to female inmates – prison authority — RT World News

The Scottish Prison Service launched a review after a public outcry over the decision to put Isla Bryson in an all-female jail The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has concluded a transgender inmate with a history of sexual violence as a male did not pose a threat to other prisoners when previously held in a women’s facility. Isla Bryson’s case has garnered widespread media attention in the UK,…

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A man who sexually assaulted a woman who was trying to help him after he claimed abuse by a female partner is now claiming to be a woman. Hell World.

A man who identifies as transgender is standing trial on accusations that he sexually assaulted two women on separate occasions. Adam Graham, 31, now goes by the the name “Isla Bryson” and was referred to by feminine pronouns both in court and in UK media coverage. Graham has been charged with raping the women with “her penis,” according to court documents.

The first alleged assault is said to have happened on September 16, 2016, in Clydebank. Graham reportedly pulled down the woman’s clothing and restrained her, forcibly penetrating her. According to the victim, Graham, being aware of the crime he committed, instructed the woman to “wash bedding” in an effort to destroy the evidence the following day. She also stated that Graham told her “not to disclose to anyone” the details of the assault.

In an attempt to secure her silence, Graham reportedly went on to threaten the victim’s family in order to secure her silence.

Though a pre-recorded statement, the victim gave testimony to the court noting that she had met Graham on dating app Badoo in July of 2016. After establishing rapport, Graham claimed he was being abused by a female partner. Concerned for his safety and wellbeing, the victim offered Graham shelter at her mother’s property, where she also lived, until which time he could be moved into a homeless unit. 

Graham reportedly began to show dramatic swings in behavior while staying at the property, screaming at a young boy the victim had been caring for. After a few weeks, he was moved to a homeless unit, but the two continued to see each other, with Graham staying over on Friday nights. 

According to the Clydebank Post, on the night of the assault, Graham entered the bedroom where she had been preparing for bed and locked the door. At first, the victim thought Graham was cuddling her, but said “everything felt weird and wrong.”

Graham then pulled the woman’s pajamas down and raped her despite her vocal protests. The assault only stopped when the victim’s mother turned on the hallway light outside of the bedroom.

Three years later, on June 27, 2019, Graham is said to have assaulted a second woman at an apartment in Glasgow. 

After having engaged in consensual sexual activity, the victim states, Graham became sexually violent and assaulted her. The court heard that Graham allegedly bit the victim, lay on top of her and restrained her, and went on to rape the woman “to her injury.”

An assault charge states that Graham additionally punched the woman the next day.

Defense advocate Edward Targowski told the High Court in Glasgow his client was pleading not guilty to all charges and was lodging a special defense of consent to two, as reported by The Scottish Sun.

A letter from Graham’s family doctor was presented in court as evidence of his transgender status. Dated August 5, 2022, the document stated Graham was “currently receiving the maximum recommended doses of Spironolactone and Finasteride” with a hormone prescription provided by Glasgow’s specialist sexual health service Sandyford Clinic.

Graham’s trial is expected to continue for at least five days more, and, if convicted, it is anticipated that he may be housed in a correctional facility for women. 

Currently in Scotland, a serial child sex offender who identifies as transgender is being held at a women’s prison, as is a disturbed male killer who now demands to be treated like a female infant.

Earlier this week, it came to light earlier that a serial rapist who targeted women in changing rooms and restrooms had begun identifying as transgender and is seeking a transfer to a women’s prison.

Last fall, it was revealed that half of Scotland’s prisoners who claim a transgender status began doing so only after they had been convicted of a crime. In response to a Freedom of Information request, the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) confirmed there were 16 trans inmates in Scots prisons, of whom eight began to identify as transgender while “being cared for in custody following their remand or conviction for their current offence”.

However, the SPS said it was unable to disclose whether or not there were allegations of sexual misconduct involving the trans-identifying male prisoners due to the cost that would be involved in providing the information.

Scotland recently attempted to pass controversial amendments to the Gender Recognition Act which would streamline the process of altering sex markers on legal documents. Notably, an amendment to the bill which would have prohibited anyone convicted of a sexual offense from changing their legal sex was rejected.

Yet the final outcome of Scotland’s proposed Gender Recognition Reform Bill currently hangs in limbo. On January 17 and for the first time in the United Kingdom’s history, Westminster chose to invoke a Section 35 Orderto block the bill from obtaining Royal Assent. 

Under Section 35 of the Scotland Act 1998, Secretary of State for Scotland Alister Jack can prevent a Holyrood bill from becoming a law if it is believed that the legislation would have an “adverse effect” on the application of laws reserved to Westminster.

By Genevieve Gluck Genevieve is the Co-Founder of Reduxx, and the outlet's Chief Investigative Journalist with a focused interest in pornography, sexual predators, and fetish subcultures. She is the creator of the podcast Women's Voices, which features news commentary and interviews regarding women's rights.

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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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Female prisoners in Scottish jails have told how transgender inmates serving sentences alongside them switched back to their male birth gender after being released.

The disclosure — in a study published in the British Journal of Criminology — has raised fresh concerns about self-identification of gender posing a risk to women’s safety as first minister Nicola Sturgeon prepares to press ahead with gender recognition legislation this year.

In England and Wales there have been a small number of incidents of violence and sexual violence involving female prisoners being attacked by trans prisoners.

The study by Dr Matthew Maycock of Dundee University’s school of education and social work turned up no such disturbing behaviour in Scotland, with only some discomfort about very limited consensual sexual activity.

One Scottish Prison Service (SPS) source said: “There have been incidents, but very minor. No one can say for certain that nothing significant has happened, but if it has none has been reported.”

However, Maycock’s report did identify fears among female inmates of predatory behaviour by some trans prisoners, with one suggesting “the transitions of transgender people might be an attempt by paedophiles or other sex offenders to access cis-women in the female prison estate”.

Another woman told of a transwoman prisoner in her work party whose views “were totally wrong. He wanted to be in this hall because he wanted to have sex with loads of lassies.”

In response to a freedom of information request, the SPS confirmed that one transgender woman housed within the women’s estate was on the sex offenders register as a result of a previous offence unrelated to the offence for which they were currently being held.

It also confirmed that no one currently in SPS custody had made the service aware that they were in possession of a gender recognition certificate confirming their acquired gender.

Another recent FoI request revealed that 12 trans prisoners convicted of violence or sexual crimes had been accommodated in Scottish women’s jails within the past 18 months. Only one had transitioned fully while the others had self-identified as female.

Maycock, who worked for the Scottish Prison Service when he undertook the research at four Scottish prisons, said several of the 15 female prisoners he interviewed spoke of transgender people who had transitioned in custody and reverted to their birth gender following release.

While some believed prisoners born male had switched for sexual opportunities, there was also a view that some had abused the system to get an easier time in jail.

Marion Calder of the campaign group For Women Scotland said the findings raised new questions about the Scottish government’s gender reforms agenda. “It has repeatedly said it will uphold the rights and protections that women currently have to single-sex spaces under the Equality Act, and yet we can see quite clearly that in practice it is busy undermining them in the most egregious way.

“It is a cruel and unusual punishment when failing to pay your TV licence can result in being forced to share a shower with a male sex offender. Single-sex prisons need to be reinstated immediately; the prison service has already shown it is capable of safely housing men, however they identify, in the male estate.”

Dr Kate Coleman, director of Keep Prisons Single Sex, said: “When you consider that very many women in prison have a history of violent and sexual abuse at the hands of men, to force them to share accommodation with prisoners who they could reasonably recognise as male is outrageous.”

While some women surveyed were respectful of the rights of trans people to identify as they felt, and positive about some of the trans prisoners they had lived beside, there was also anger that they had no opportunity to express discomfort.

One prisoner said she feared the trans prisoners she had known had conned the SPS. She said: “The last one to get out, back living as a man. The one before that got out, back living as a man.

“While he was in the hall, [he] was telling people, I’m stopping taking my medication because I can’t [become erect]. I’ve not a problem living with trans people; it’s living with people who are manipulating the system and pretending to be trans.”

Another said of another trans prisoner: “I feel like it was a bit of an act. Because she had a beard and she didn’t try. She basically had a short back and sides and . . . she just looked awful. And she didn’t try to cover up her ‘down belows’. She just didn’t try.”

The SPS is aware of Maycock’s research but has no plans to make use of it. Instead, it has undertaken its own consultation exercise into how it fits trans prisoners into its estate and expects to have a report by the summer.

On Christmas Eve, Scotland’s prison population stood at 7,435, with only 259 listed as women. A total of 15 prisoners were trans, 12 of them trans women and three trans men. It is understood that all are currently held in female units as previous experience of trans men in the male estate had caused tensions.

A senior SPS source said risk assessments are conducted before offenders born male and identifying as female are allowed into the female estate, and the validity of their claims is tested. “It is not, as some think, automatic on request,” the source said.

[skylifrs]

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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[theprisonlawyertour]

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…