Prisons
Can sentencing reform solve Scotland’s prison overcrowding crisis?
Author / Creator: Megan Davidson
Media type: Article
Date published: 2026
Prison cannot effectively rehabilitate when it is operating beyond capacity.
Prison Reform
Author / Creator: Jimmy Reid Foundation
Media type: Briefing
Date published: 2024
Scotland’s prisons are in crisis.
Rehabilitating Scotland: Exploring the impact of mentoring-based throughcare
Author / Creator: Ben Cooper
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
In recent years the prison population has been the steadily increasing, especially the male prison population