Isla Bryson, a transgender woman found guilty of raping two women before transitioning, will not be imprisoned in Scotland’s all-female Cornton Vale prison, Nicola Sturgeon has told the Scottish parliament.
Pressed repeatedly on the matter at first minister’s questions on Thursday by the Scottish Conservative leader, Douglas Ross, Sturgeon said she agreed it was not possible to have a rapist incarcerated within a female prison. It later emerged that Sturgeon had made a rare intervention concerning the prison service decision about Bryson during a meeting involving Keith Brown, the justice secretary, which took place shortly before she announced at Holyrood that Bryson was being moved from Cornton Vale.
He denied suggestions Sturgeon took part directly in that meeting and acknowledged ministers very rarely were involved in decisions about individual prisoners, but said Sturgeon believed no rapist should be held in a women’s prison.
To play the devil's advocate for a moment. Should men who rape other men in prison be part of the prison population? Wouldn't it be more constructive if prisons concentrated on reform rather than revenge? Even for the psychopaths who may never change?
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