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Kathleen Nutt
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Political Correspondent at The Herald, email me with stories and tips to kathleen.nutt@theherald.co.uk
She also steps up criticism of Holyrood's corporate body for its interim decision to ban trans people from using toilets in their acquired gender in the parliament building

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Trans people are 'being demonised' says ex minister in new toilet ban attack
Trans people are being "demonised" in Scotland, according to former Scottish Government equalities minister Emma Roddick.
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June 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
While former First Minister Henry McLeish assesses what's happened since his 2008 report and why the prison population has climbed to around 8300 when he set the Scottish Government a target to cut it to 5000.

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Henry McLeish: Scotland's criminal justice system is wasting lives and money
Scotland's criminal justice system is "not working" and wasting human lives and money, according to Henry McLeish who authored a report on…
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April 2, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Education writer @jamesmcenaney.bsky.social
examine the education background of prisoners and what qualifications some are achieving during their time in custody.
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Revealed: the qualifications achieved by individuals in all Scottish prisons
Scotland’s prisoners achieved a total of 18,628 qualifications during the last full academic year, The Herald can exclusively reveal.
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April 2, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Day 3 in our series investigating what's going on in Scotland's prisons also sees @rebeccamccurdy.bsky.social probe what rehab is on offer to prisoners and where it falls short.
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Scottish ministers accused of lacking leadership on alcohol rehab in prison
A leading charity has warned the Scottish Government lacks leadership amid the significant scale of problematic alcohol use in prison.
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April 2, 2025 at 8:06 AM
So why has the SNP failed in its pledge to bring down prisoners numbers despite falling levels of violent crime? And why do Scotland (and England) have the highest imprisonment rates in western Europe?

@heraldscotland.bsky.social

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Why has the SNP failed to cut prisoner numbers despite aim?
Since the SNP came to power 18 years ago the prison population has soared to a record of almost 9000 despite recommendations by a Commission set up…
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March 31, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Amid their fears governors want the Scot Gov to bring back an automatic early release scheme for long term prisoners axed by the SNP in 2016

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Governors press government to bring in early release scheme for serious offenders
Governors want return of an early release for long term prisoners, axed in 2016, to be brought back by John Swinney and Angela Constance amid record…
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March 31, 2025 at 8:56 AM
While I report on an unprecedented warning from governors over the fears over the return of rioting - last seen in the late 80s/early 90s - as they deal with a prison population on course to reach record levels this year www.heraldscotland.com/news/2502756...
'Abnormal risk': Governors fear return of riots as prison population soars to record
Prison governors fear the return of rioting as an unprecedented number of prisons are placed on the highest security alert level.
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March 31, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Rebecca McCurdy takes a deep dive into overcrowding investigating the rising population across the prison estate and the limited impact of early release or short term prisoners

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Record prison overcrowding revealed despite new emergency release scheme
A record number of prisons are overcrowded despite emergency release schemes freeing hundreds of prisoners early.
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March 31, 2025 at 8:56 AM