Reading Time: 5 minutesForensic mental health services specialise in the assessment, treatment and risk management of people with a mental disorder who are currently undergoing, or have previously
Tag: Prisons
Coronavirus (Covid-19): prisoner numbers
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis blog looks at the impact on prisoner numbers of measures taken in response to the coronavirus
Twenty Years of Imprisonment
Reading Time: 12 minutesAs part of the programme to mark 20 years of the Scottish Parliament, this blog looks at the use of imprisonment since devolution.
A new approach to women offenders in Scotland
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhere were we? Scotland has come a long way in its approach to women offenders in recent years. For example, until the mid 2000s, women