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Victorian coroner tells Veronica Nelson inquest he backs changes to 'disaster' bail laws

Victorian coroner Simon McGregor has described the conditions in the lead-up to the 37-year-old Gunditjmara, Dja Dja Wurrung, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta woman's death as "harrowing", while labelling the state's bail laws a "complete and unmitigated disaster".

ABC News

BBC Happy Valley: The 7 questions we need answering ahead of series' final episode

CONTAINS SPOILERS We have a whole week to come up with our best theories about what will happen to Catherine Cawood, Tommy Lee Royce and the rest of Happy Valley's residents

Wales Online

Calls made for Scotland to follow Italy's lead by opening jail for transgender prisoners

The demand follows a public outcry after a transgender woman, Isla Bryson, was sent to Cornton Vale women's prison in Stirling after being convicted of two rapes.

Daily Record

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Most shocking moments of Brookside as Liverpool soap returns to TV

The show was axed back in 2003

Liverpool Echo

Isla Bryson: Movement of violent transgender prisoners 'paused' in Scotland after row over rapist who attended Ayrshire College

Classmates of Isla Bryson reacted furiously to the news they had shared the same course as the rapist, who was convicted last week.

Daily Record

Movement of all transgender prisoners halted in Scotland as 'urgent' review ordered

Scotland's Justice Secretary Keith Brown has confirmed transgender prisoners with a history of violence against women will not serve their sentences with female jail mates

Daily Mirror

No transgender prisoners with history of violence against women to be placed in female prisons in Scotland

It comes amid a major backlash after a prisoner convicted of two rapes was moved to a women's prison

Manchester Evening News

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Scotland says transgender prisoners with violent pasts will not go to women’s jails

Justice secretary pauses transfer of all transgender prisoners after outrage about rapist Isla Bryson being sent to all-female prison

The Guardian - UK

Scotland introduces new measures as transgender prisoner policy reviewed

The Scottish government said on Sunday it would review the management of trans prisoners and introduce measures in the meantime to stop transgender people with a history of violence against women being placed in female prisons.

Reuters

Scottish Prison Service halts movement of trans inmates as it announces ‘urgent review’

Scotland to pause movement of all transgender inmates until after review complete

The Independent UK

Urgent review into movement of transgender prisoners ordered – Keith Brown

Keith Brown said the rule will include those guilty of sexual violence towards women.

The Independent UK

Tiffany Scott to remain in men's jail as prison bosses launch 'urgent review' of trans cases

The Record first reported how Tiffany Scott - who stalked a 13-year-old girl while known as Andrew Burns - was set to be transferred to a jail that aligns with her chosen gender.

Daily Record

Scottish Prison Service halts movement of all transgender prisoners while rules are reviewed

The Scottish Prison Service has paused the movement of all transgender prisoners while it carries out an “urgent review”.

Evening Standard

Trans convicts with history of violence against women won't be housed in female jail

Keith Brown has announced measures to be put in place while the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) is conducting a review of the policy on trans inmates

The National (Scotland)

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Calls for second trans prisoner to be blocked from serving sentence in women's jail

The Scottish Tories have urged Nicola Sturgeon to personally intervene in the case of a trans prisoner who has applied to be housed in a female jail

Glasgow Live

Prison officer smuggled drugs into HMP Shotts after 'bonding' with Glasgow sword killer

Mother-of-two Heather McKenzie was working at the high security jail when she supplied inmate Maryhill Park killer Zak Malavin and others with drugs, including cocaine.

Irish Mirror

Inside 'hair and beauty school' at Irish women's prison named after Scissor Sister killers

Exclusive: The salon – named Head and Shoulders after star pupils Scissor Sisters Linda and Charlotte Mulhall – teaches manicures, facials and how to apply makeup.

Asharq Al-Awsat

France Shows Concern over Course of Events in Iran

Dozens of protesters have gathered at the place du Trocadero in Paris in a show of support for French nationals detained in Iran. The detainees have been described as “hostages” by the French government, which confirmed that seven French nationals were being held in Iranian prisons such as Tehran’s notorious…

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Wales Online

'My daughter was taken off me after I started hearing voices and seeing things'

Laura Clement suffered with psychosis through her pregnancy and ended up in prison twice

Dublin Live

Almost €5,000 spent on make-up products for prison beauty course

Figures obtained under Freedom of Information show €4,792 was spent on products used to teach inmates how to do salon treatments and hairdressing

Daily Mirror

Freed prisoner BEGS for permission to go back to prison to finish off drama course

A convict released from prison asked for special permission to go back inside HMP Channing Wood so that he could take part in an end-of-course theatre production

The Canberra Times

Prison's $600k body scanners sit idle as drugs and contraband hit three-year high

Expensive body scanners, seen as a key way of detecting drugs and other contraband coming into Canberra's jail, are still sitting unused.

Dublin Live

Ex-Dublin gangster turned porn star goes from 'gangland to gangbang'

Richard McNally – who is a close friend of killer Brian Rattigan and a cousin of criminal Wayne McNally – said that he had the 'biggest knob in gangland'

Liverpool Echo

'I was in prison with Tinhead and at Mick Johnson's stag do' - the life of a Brookside extra

Chris Bebbington explains what it was like to appear on the iconic programme

The Independent UK

Sturgeon should step in to stop transfer of transgender prisoner, say Tories

Tiffany Scott’s request for a transfer has reportedly been rubber-stamped.

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