The campaign group For Women Scotland is challenging the guidance which helps decide which prisons trans people are held in.

The case comes in the wake of the outcry over trans rapist Isla Bryson – formerly known as Adam Graham – who was initially ...

Women prisoners in Scotland are being treated as "pawns for political gain", by an "Orwellian" policy "based on institutional neglect of and contempt for women's rights" a court has been told.

At a discussion on women’s prison writings, the conversation centred on memoirs by two women political prisoners, Unsilenced: The Jail Diary of an Activist by Seema Azad and Phansi Yard Se by Sudha ...