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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

Campaigners challenge Scottish policy on transgender inmates in female prisons

Scottish policy allows some transgender inmates to be housed in female prisons, prompting legal challenge over risks to biological female prisoners and alleged political motive.
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 month ago

The only way out is in a bodybag': The final days of IPP prisoner Taylor Atkinson

But under the terms of his Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence, he was repeatedly denied his freedom - at times because the despair of not having a release date had left his mental health on a knife edge. The only glimpse of the outside world he had seen - a series of day releases in the months before his death - had been snatched away weeks earlier after a prison officer had briefly lost sight of him in a busy shopping centre.
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